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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Based on Real-life Alice Network in France during the war and how many heroic women were recruited as spies gathering vital information to help the war efforts. Captivating story jumping from the past and present 1947 at the end of the WW2 when an american student comes to Europe seeking her cousin Rose, who has been missing during the war with no details of how or if she perished. Charlie Sinclair (American) seeks to meet a contact who may know the where abouts of her cousin through Eve Gardner (Alice network agent) Together they join efforts seeking answers and then redemption. Great Story, Audible Listen Gripping spy story animating the life of an actual heroine (Louise de Bettignies) and her network of spies, while spinning a stirring story that dances between World Wars to unite a young lady, Charlotte, who is coming of age with a jolt (involving, among other things, a decision to be made about a “Little Problem” her family would have her waste no time in “taking care of” to avoid tattered reputations) and a suicidal older woman, Eve, caught in the grips of a past that refuses to be forgotten, in the hopes of finding Charlotte’s best friend and cousin, Rose, who disappeared into France at the height of WWII. Sighhh, yet another author I must add to my list of “must read other works by”…’think I’ll probably also have to track down “Queen of Spies: Louise de Bettignies” by Major Thomas Coulson, 1935. Enjoyable read just not my favorite. Ms. Quinn is a very good storyteller. I wished I wouldn’t have read it so close to the time I read The Huntress; the similarities were too fresh in my mind. That being said, it didn’t hold my interest as much as The Huntress and I actually put it down for a day or two before picking it back up, perhaps a bit drawn out without enough umph; perhaps I was just in a shelter at home mood. I would recommend the book, all things considered. no reviews | add a review
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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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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That being said, I had to struggle to read all the way through this book. It may have just been a mood thing but this was slightly boring for me. I also find Charlie to be QUITE annoying.
Her character becomes so predictable that its more fun to just skip past the sections that focus on her. Constantly sounding like an insolent teenager, yelling at people about "whore this and math that". Girl we know. ( )