The Tuesday Morning Book Club at Cole Library will be meeting June 21 from 9:30 — 11 a.m. The group meets in Room 108, which is the large meeting room on the First Floor of the Library.
You can email Sherene Player at [email protected] if you have any questions. All are welcome to join the Book Club.
At the June Meeting, the group will be reading and discussing the book The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. Deb George will lead the discussion.
From the publisher comes this summary of the book: “In an enthralling new historical 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 find out 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, she’s 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.”