How is her hatred for him complicated by intimacy? How does his realization of Eve’s true identity change him? How do you think they continued to think and feel about each other during their thirty years’ separation, and how did that affect their eventual climax?

Eve loves Captain Cameron and hates René Bordelon-but her relationship with René is longer, darker, and more complex.

Did you see him as a villain or an opportunist? Do you think he earned his final fate? He sees himself as a practical businessman, pointing out that he is not to blame for making money off the invaders, or for tragedies like Oradour-sur-Glane that happened on German orders.

René Bordelon is denigrated by his peers as a war profiteer and an informer.

Lili tells Eve, “To tell the truth, much of this special work we do is quite boring.” Did the realities of spy work surprise you, compared to the more glamorous version presented by Hollywood? How do you think you would have fared working for the historical Alice Network?.

How and when did you see the young Eve begin to change into her older self? What was the catalyst of those changes?

The young Eve introduced in 1915 is very different from the older Eve seen through Charlie’s eyes in 1947.

How does each friendship grow and change over the course of events? Clair and Eve Gardiner begin as antagonists, whereas Eve and Louise de Bettignies (Lili) are friends from the start.

Female friendship is a constant theme throughout The Alice Network.

Violette Lameron, also a spy in the Alice network (appears in both 1917 & 1947 in the novel).

Alice (Lili) Dubois, Eve’s contact in the spy network.

Captain Cameron, in 1915 recruits spies for the Alice Network.

In 1947, he’s 29 or 30 years old, drives a Lagonde, an ex-convict.

Finn Kilgore, Gardiner’s man of all work.

René Bordelon, collaborator and profiteer takes on alias of René du Malassis.

In 1915 uses the code name Marguerite Le François, came from a troubled home, unfaithful father, spendthrift mother, always arguing.

Eve Gardiner, stutters, recruited in WWI to spy for England.

Tante (aunt) Jeanne, infirm, mother of Rose.

Rose Fournier (Charlie’s cousin) 21 years old in 1947, good with numbers, pregnant by her boyfriend Etienne.

Clair, 19-year-old pregnant schoolgirl in 1947, takes on the alias of Mrs. The remaining questions are home-grown, but first here’s a list of prominent characters: The first twelve questions that follow are from the end matter in Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network.

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