The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

Eve wondered how much it was possible to change in two weeks. Or was it not change, but becoming what she already was?

The “wallflower to belle-of-the-ball” arc is a classic trope for women in fiction. The twist I love to put on it? My women transform from duckling to swan not because of a prince, but because of a job—because they find something they are spectacularly good at, and it makes them flower into their full power and confidence.