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The Alice Network: A Novel af Kate Quinn
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The Alice Network: A Novel (udgave 2017)

af Kate Quinn (Forfatter)

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"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. In 1915, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. Sent into enemy-occupied France during The Great War, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents, right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launching them both on a mission to find the truth ... no matter where it leads"--… (mere)
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Titel:The Alice Network: A Novel
Forfattere:Kate Quinn (Forfatter)
Info:William Morrow Paperbacks (2017), 560 pages
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The Alice Network af Kate Quinn

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Everything I was promised it would be. What a spectacular book. ( )
  corliss12000 | Mar 16, 2024 |
This was a really fascinating and moving story of female spies during the war. I enjoyed both the present and past characters, and the mystery and revenge involved. ( )
  Linyarai | Mar 6, 2024 |
World War 2
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
More unsung women heroes

Although "The Alice Network" is historical fiction, I was pleased to learn that some of the previously-unknown-to-me characters were real, in the notes at the end of the book. Set largely in France, in both WWI and the post WWII era, Ms. Quinn's tale of a spy network comprised of many women at a time when women rarely were given positions of importance, was compelling and entirely credible. I thoroughly enjoyed this well-researched, well-written novel. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |

This novel is tightly written; complex, terrifying, and triumpant. Filled with moments of meaning and joy, friendship and loss, strung together like diamonds and pearls and lumps of coal. The depths and heights of how humans treat each other. ( )
  AnneMarieMcD | Jan 16, 2024 |
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"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. In 1915, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. Sent into enemy-occupied France during The Great War, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents, right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launching them both on a mission to find the truth ... no matter where it leads"--

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