Author: Kate Quinn
Published: June 6th 2017 by William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback, 503 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Usually, when you come across a novel like this, you find a single-story line and a character or two that appeals to you - it is a mark of a brilliant book when each page keeps the reader engaged. Not one plot point is any less mesmerizing than the next, or a single character appeals more than another. From start to finish, this book held me and would not let go until the last page.
Charlotte "Charlie" St. Clair, a 1947 Bennington college student with “a little problem” her French mother has decided will be best handled with a little vacation so she can return with a brighter future. Charlie has other plans - she wants to find Rose, her beloved cousin that went away and never returned. This is where Eve Gardiner and her story comes in and leads the reader down the rabbit hole that was once known as the Alice Network and the exploits of the courageous women of 1915 WWI takes the reader in an unexpected direction.
As the chapters unfold, you can see how Charlie and Eve begin to transform while intermeshing the past and what life was like under watchful eyes. Through hope and tragedy, the ghosts of the past resurface. Yet, they are stronger than their circumstances, and between the two of them, the wrongs will be righted, leaving the truths laid bare.
Charlotte "Charlie" St. Clair, a 1947 Bennington college student with “a little problem” her French mother has decided will be best handled with a little vacation so she can return with a brighter future. Charlie has other plans - she wants to find Rose, her beloved cousin that went away and never returned. This is where Eve Gardiner and her story comes in and leads the reader down the rabbit hole that was once known as the Alice Network and the exploits of the courageous women of 1915 WWI takes the reader in an unexpected direction.
As the chapters unfold, you can see how Charlie and Eve begin to transform while intermeshing the past and what life was like under watchful eyes. Through hope and tragedy, the ghosts of the past resurface. Yet, they are stronger than their circumstances, and between the two of them, the wrongs will be righted, leaving the truths laid bare.
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