(Lili’s job is “to be anyone” - to pretend to be many different people, all insignificant. Not only does she like Lili a lot, she also realizes that their roles are different, but both important. Eve feels jealous of Lili when Cameron first describes her as his best spy, but gets over it when she meets Lili. All the Other Reindeer: Eve mentions being bullied because of her stutter when she was a child.The same is true of Captain Cecil Cameron.In the epilogue, however, it’s basically scrap, and they only use it to go on picnics. The Alleged Car: Charlie teases Finn about his Lagonda being a piece of junk, but it’s actually quite a nice car.She uses alcohol to kill the pain of her memories of the war. The Alcoholic: Eve drinks far too much, sometimes in place of a meal or to put off sleep.Affectionate Nickname: Charlie’s nickname started out this way - Rose was the only one who called her Charlie - but after Rose’s disappearance, she began to go by Charlie full time.Applied Mathematics: Charlie often uses mathematical metaphors, which her mother hates.Ĭharlie: One college sophomore minus one small encumberance, divided by six months' passage of time, multiplied by ten Paris frocks and a new haircut will not magically equal one restored reputation.Ĭharlie's mother: Life is not a math problem, Charlotte.
Added Alliterative Appeal: Eve calls René a cut-price collaborating cunt.Charlie somehow pulls Eve into her quest to find her missing cousin Rose, and Charlie, Eve, and Eve's driver Finn, embark on a road trip that will change everything. Clair, a grieving pregnant teen, comes across Eve, now a bitter, alcoholic old woman. Also present is René Bordelon, an elegant French profiteer who could ruin everything if he learned Eve’s secrets…ģ2 years later, Charlotte " Charlie" St. Among Eve's comrades in Lille are Lili, the vivacious Frenchwoman running the network, and Violette, Lili's stern Foil and second in command. After completing training, she joins the Alice Network, a network of spies based in the starved French city of Lille, and is immediately plunged into a world of danger and excitement beyond her wildest dreams - or maybe nightmares. Evelyn Gardiner, a bored typewriter girl with a talent for lying, is spotted one day by the handsome, Scottish recruitment officer Captain Cameron and becomes a spy. The year is 1915, and Britain is in the midst of what would eventually be called World War One.
The Alice Network is a 2017 historical fiction novel by Kate Quinn.
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