Eve agrees to accompany Charlotte, ‘Charlie’, to France but not for the purpose that Charlie has envisaged. She attempts to persuade Eve Gardiner, a war-weary former member of the 1915 Alice Network, to help her on her quest. One of the main characters in the 1947 segment is a 19-year-old girl from a wealthy New York family who has broken the chains of her parent’s bondage and has fled to France to solve the mystery of her cousin who went missing during WWII. I found myself wondering how I would have managed myself given the same circumstances. The patriotism that propelled them into this kind of dangerous work and the bravery they demonstrated day after day in their attempts to bring down the German war machine are hard to comprehend by someone who has never had their own existence challenged in such a way. The unfolding of the lives of the women who were part of the real-life Alice spy network was fascinating. I am a fan of historical fiction and this one did not disappoint. The 1915 story is based on real characters from WWI, a fact that I didn’t realize until I finished the book. The Alice Network unfolds along two timelines, one being 1915, the early years of the Great War and the other being post-WWII 1947.
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