The Alice Network in Reading with Style

Jul 22, 2019 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2019, audiobook, france, friendship, spy, historical-fiction, world-war-i

The book alternates between telling the story of Charlie St. Clair in 1945 and Eve Gardiner in 1915. charlie is 19 and pregnant. She runs away from her mother en route to Switzerland and finds Eve and her chauffeur Finn who may know the whereabouts of her cousin Rose who went missing during WWII. As they begin the search for Rose the book goes back to Eve's time as a spy during WWI. The book was interesting and I liked all the main characters. I enjoyed the insertion of the real life Alice Netwo ...more

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Sep 29, 2019 Emily rated it it was amazing

Moving back and forth in time between WWI and just after WWII, the Alice Network tells of Eve's experiences as a spy in German-occupied France and Charlie's enlistment of Eve's help to find her cousin Rose who went missing during the second war. Eve was damaged physically, mentally and emotionally by performing her loyal service to her country and is consumed by desire for revenge against the man who did most of the damage. Charlie is also trying to figure out who she is as a woman during a time ...more

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Oct 25, 2018 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, bookclub-grasslands, 2018-read, rws-2018-fall

This is a perfect choice for my bookclub -- strong female characters, interesting history, pat and complete resolution, nothing too deep, but enough to talk about with the group.

Overall, I liked the book--it was gripping and I liked the characters. I'm a sucker for a romantic interest with a brogue (Scottish in this instance). The ending was too neat and overly clever for its own good, but my book club will eat that right up.

The narrator was fine if somewhat unmemorable. She kept me listening th ...more

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