Alice network. (124856634) Due 5/24/2024

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13 regular print copies, 5 large print copies

It's 1947 and 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 fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie heads to London determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. In 1915, Eve Gardiner [is] recruited to work as a spy for the English...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. 503 pages.