![]() ![]() This is Eve Gardiner, a bitter, hard-drinking, gun-toting woman in her fifties with damaged hands. So she sneaks away from her mother and finds a woman who might know something about what happened to Rose. Charlie holds on to a slim hope that her cousin might still be alive. And she is determined to discover what happened to her French cousin Rose, who disappeared in occupied France during the war. She is devastated by the suicide of her brother after his traumatic experiences in World War II, and her failure-as she sees it-to help him more. ![]() Charlie is not sure that is what she wants, though. Clair, pregnant and unmarried, arrives in London with her mother, on her way to a Swiss clinic where she has an appointment to end her pregnancy, to avoid social embarrassment for her wealthy family. The book begins in 1947, when the American college student Charlie St. In The Alice Network, Kate Quinn tells two parallel stories, one set in World War I and the other just after World War II, in alternating chapters. ![]()
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