The Alice Network was a real-life network of female spies during WWI, based mostly in the Lille region of France. They gathered information for the British by utilizing their civilian jobs to pick up information on German troop movements and military positions. The network was named after it's leader, Louise de Bettignies, who used the alias Alice Dubois.
This book has been on my TBR since it came out in 2017. I'm sad that I waited until now to read it.
1947, the world still reeling from WWII, Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl, is pregnant and being taking by her mother to Switzerland to "fix" her problem. Restless and still grieving the death of her brother, she realizes that this is her chance to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in France during the war.
1915, Eve Gardiner joins the fight against Germany by being recruited to be a part of the Alice Network. Sent into enemy occupied France. She is trained by the best, and works well for her country, at great personal cost.
Now in 1947, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded, aided by a hired hand named Finn, until a cheeky American girl lands on her doorstep mentioning a name she hasn't heard in years. The girl wants help in finding her cousin, and Eve just wants revenge.
The chapters in this book go back and forth between WWI and 1947, and while I loved Eve's story (as hard as it was to imagine what the real life spies went through), Charlie's story was less interesting to me. I also thought it could have been shorter. But all in all I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to any Historical Fiction fans.
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