The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
Ada’s Score
Quinn builds this novel on a double helix of timelines — a WWI spy network and a 1947 woman searching for a missing cousin — and the structure earns its complexity. Eve Gardiner, the war-worn agent at the centre, is one of the more quietly devastating characters in recent historical fiction: damaged, sharp-tongued, and morally unresolved in ways that feel honest. The prose is propulsive without being shallow. Where the novel truly succeeds is in its refusal to sanitise the cost of wartime work on women's bodies and minds. It will resonate most with those who want their history urgent and their heroines scarred.
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AI reading intelligence"Eve Gardiner is the kind of damaged, fierce, morally complicated woman historical fiction rarely gets right. Quinn gets her very right."
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Two Women, Two Wars, One Unbreakable Thread
There's a particular kind of tension Kate Quinn builds in The Alice Network that I find almost unbearable — the kind that comes not from wondering what happens, but from dreading it. She weaves two women across two wars with such precision and emotional weight that by the end, I felt wrung out in the best possible way, the way only truly committed historical fiction can manage. The prose is propulsive without being careless, and the stakes — both political and deeply personal — stayed with me long after I turned the last page.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books
- Published
- January 1, 2017
- Pages
- 444
- Language
- English
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