Complex characters anchor an emotional tale of spies and post-war trauma.

As both a WW1 buff and a student of women in wartime, it's amazing (and slightly embarrassing) that I'd never heard of the real-life Alice Network before picking up this novel by Kate Quinn. Similar to the Special Operations Executive in WW2, the Alice Network was a group of spies operating in occupied France during the First World War. The Alice Network is an emotional, sometimes heart-rending, tale of friendship and red...