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The Alice Network Reading Order
Kate Quinn's The Alice Network (2017) is the dual-timeline historical thriller alternating between an American college girl named Charlie St. Clair searching for her missing cousin in 1947, and Evelyn Gardiner, a World War I spy in the real Alice Network (the British intelligence ring run by Louise de Bettignies in occupied France from 1915 to 1917). Quinn's bestselling novel opened the floodgates for the now-popular subgenre of dual-timeline WWI and WWII women's espionage fiction.
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Kate Quinn·2017·Start here — the complete standalone novel. Quinn's other dual-timeline historical thrillers (The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, The Briar Club) are similarly standalone.
The Alice Network — Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Alice Network a standalone novel?
Yes. The Alice Network is a complete standalone novel with no sequels. Kate Quinn writes standalone dual-timeline historical thrillers; her other novels — The Rose Code (2021, WWII codebreakers at Bletchley Park), The Diamond Eye (2022, Soviet female sniper), and The Briar Club (2024) — all use the same structure and can be read in any order.
What should I read next after The Alice Network?
Quinn readers continue with The Rose Code, her WWII novel about three codebreakers at Bletchley Park, or The Diamond Eye, about Soviet female sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. For readers who loved The Alice Network's dual-timeline structure, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, Pam Jenoff's The Orphan's Tale, and Beatriz Williams's The Summer Wives are strong companions.
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