NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER One of
NPR's Best Books of the Year! One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!
Reese Witherspoon Book Club Summer Reading Pick! A Girly Book Club Book of the Year! A Summer
Book Pick from Good Housekeeping Parade Library Journal Goodreads Liz and Lisa and BookBub
In an enthralling new dual timeline historical fiction novel from national bestselling author
Kate Quinn two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during
World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are
brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic
aftermath of World War II American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant unmarried and
on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope
that her beloved cousin Rose who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war might
still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem"
taken care of Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to solve the historical
mystery of what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. 1915 . A year into the Great
War Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance
when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France this young female spy
is trained by the mesmerizing Lili the "Queen of Spies" who manages a vast network of secret
agents right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later haunted by the betrayal that
ultimately tore apart the Alice Network Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her
crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in
decades and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.
“Both funny and heartbreaking this epic journey of two courageous women is an unforgettable
tale of little-known wartime glory and sacrifice. Quinn knocks it out of the park with this
spectacular book!”—Stephanie Dray New York Times bestselling author of America's First
Daughter
