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A badass female spy network? What’s not to love?!

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

July 17, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – Far and Away   This category is a bit broad, but hopefully a novel set on a different continent in a different time period is far enough away? 🙂 The Alice Network starts off with American co-ed Charlotte (Charlie) St. Clair travelling to Europe to get “a little problem” taken care of (1947 translation: she done got knocked up out of wedlock and her wealthy parents are insisting on an abortion in Switzerland). Charlie’s motivations for agreeing to the trip to Europe […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Suspense Tagged With: #historicalfiction, #katequinn, cbr11bingo, farandaway, spies, thealicenetwork, WW1, ww2

kella's CBR11 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, History, Suspense · Tags: #historicalfiction, #katequinn, cbr11bingo, farandaway, spies, thealicenetwork, WW1, ww2 ·
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“But she turned her floodlight eyes on me and demanded a confession”

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

March 27, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

  Do you like books with smart, bad-ass ladies both fictional and historical? Do you like intelligent novelizations of real historical events? If so, The Alice Network is definitely a book you should add to your TBR pile. The book follows two timelines. In 1915 a young Eve Gardiner is recruited to work as a spy in Nazi-occupied France for the titular Alice Network. Eve’s experiences in France leave both emotional and physical scars. In 1947, Charlie St. Clair a pregnant and unwed American socialite […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History Tagged With: #historicalfiction #thealicenetwork, #katequinn, cbr11

Bea Pants's CBR11 Review No:14 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History · Tags: #historicalfiction #thealicenetwork, #katequinn, cbr11 ·
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