Is there an audiobook of The Alice Network?

Yes. The Alice Network has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld.

How long is the The Alice Network audiobook?

The The Alice Network audiobook runs 15 hr 7 min.

Is The Alice Network on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. The Alice Network was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 23, 2026.

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Our score

4.8/ 5

Incredible

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJune 2017

Genres

Fiction Historical Fiction

Themes

What survival demands and what it costs afterwardFemale courage written out of official historyRage that outlasts the war that caused itFamily loyalty across generations

The Alice Network

Name: The Alice Network
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Kate Quinn

Kate Quinn

Kate Quinn braids a pregnant, headstrong American socialite hunting her missing cousin in 1947 with a real WWI female spy ring in occupied France, and lets one woman's fury outlast two wars.

The Review

Our take

What did you do to survive, and what did it cost you to keep doing it. That's the question sitting underneath both timelines of this book, and Quinn refuses to let either woman answer it easily. In 1947, Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and about to be quietly disposed of by her own family when she breaks away in London and goes looking for Rose, the cousin who vanished in occupied France and whom everyone else has already given up for dead. In 1915, Eve Gardiner is recruited into the real historical Alice Network, a ring of women spies operating under the nose of the German occupation, and the price of that work is written all over her thirty years later: a ruined hand, a house full of gin bottles, and a fury she has never once let cool.

Eve is the reason this book works as well as it does. Quinn writes her as a genuinely difficult person to be around, sharp-tongued and half-feral by the time Charlie barges into her life, and the earlier timeline justifies every bit of that damage by showing exactly how a young woman with a stutter and something to prove got recruited, trained, and then betrayed by people she trusted with her life. The espionage sequences carry real tension because Quinn clearly did the research on how the actual Alice Network operated, and the tradecraft never feels like set dressing.

Charlie's half of the book is the gentler engine, a young woman finding a spine she didn't know she had while dragging a drunk, dangerous old woman across postwar France in a borrowed car. Their odd-couple dynamic, prickly veteran and naive ingenue slowly building mutual respect, gives the book its warmth and its momentum, even as Eve's wartime chapters deliver most of its weight. The two timelines converge on a specific historical villain, and Quinn plays that reveal patiently, letting the reader feel the decades of accumulated rage land exactly where they should.

Why you should read

Fans of dual-timeline WWI and WWII historical fiction
Readers drawn to real female spy history
Anyone who liked The Nightingale or Code Name Verity
Readers who want a difficult, unforgettable heroine over a likable one

What to expect

Two alternating timelines, 1915 and 1947
A long, immersive read at over 500 pages
Real historical espionage tradecraft, not romanticized spycraft
Dark wartime content: betrayal, injury, and its long aftermath

At over five hundred pages, this asks real commitment, and a few of Charlie's 1947 chapters move at a more leisurely pace than Eve's wartime ones, which never let up. It's a minor cost against what the book delivers: two distinct women, a genuinely researched slice of WWI history most readers have never encountered, and an ending whose catharsis feels built, not manufactured. Few historical novels manage grief and vengeance in the same key this well.

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Our verdict

4.8/ 5

Incredible

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Is there an audiobook of The Alice Network?: Yes. The Alice Network has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld.
Listen to The Alice Network free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the The Alice Network audiobook?: The The Alice Network audiobook runs 15 hr 7 min.
Is The Alice Network on Kindle Unlimited?: Yes. The Alice Network was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 23, 2026.
How much does The Alice Network cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $9.99, Paperback $10.46, Hardcover $33.35. Prices as of August 28, 2026 at 3:20 AM EDT and may change.

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What is The Alice Network about?: What did you do to survive, and what did it cost you to keep doing it. That's the question sitting underneath both timelines of this book, and Quinn refuses to let either woman answer it easily. In 1947, Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and about to be quietly disposed of by her own…
Is The Alice Network worth reading?: We scored The Alice Network 4.8 out of 5. Kate Quinn braids a pregnant, headstrong American socialite hunting her missing cousin in 1947 with a real WWI female spy ring in occupied France, and lets one woman's fury outlast two wars.