Workbook for The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn E-Book

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• Herausgeber: MaxHelp
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Any reader can use this Workbook for The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn and find immediate help in applying its major lessons.
The Alice Network, written by best-selling author Kate Quinn, tells us the story of courage and redemption displayed by two women in 1947, a time after the chaotic World War II. Charlie St. Claire, a pregnant American college girl, holds on to hope as she searches for her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France. Disowned by her parents to Europe to solve her "little problem," Charlie took the opportunity and headed to London to determine what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.
In the year of the Great War 1915, Eve Gardiner got the chance to be recruited as a spy and was sent into enemy-occupied France. Thirty years later, Eve now spends her days drunk and separated from the world with the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network haunting her. Time has already stopped for Eve until a young American girl barges in searching for a name she hasn't heard in decades, sending them both on a mission to find the truth.
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn became a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction almost immediately after its release in 2017. Saskia Maarleveld, who narrated the book, honored the compelling novel when she earned the Audi Award for Best Female Narrator in 2018.

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Workbook for

The Alice Network:

A Novel

Kate Quinn

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Table of Contents

Title Page

The Alice Network

1. Book Abstract: The Alice Network

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Table of Contents

1. Book Abstract: The Alice Network

2. About the Author: Kate Quinn

3. Important Notes About This Book

4. Beyond its Publication

5. Quiz Questions

6. Quiz Answers

7. Gift: Bonus Bestselling Workbooks

Book Abstract for The Alice Network

Upon writing The Alice Network, Kate Quinn wanted to explore with two different stories. She points out how the "wounds"  could travel between the two world wars and how things that happen from the first would echo a generation later in the second.

In an interview, when Kate Quinn was asked what drew her to take a break from Ancient Rome and write about women in WWI, she revealed that she has never been a one-era writer. She shared how she would always have ideas for books in a broad array of historical periods from ancient Rome to World War I. When Quinn saw the rise of popularity for 20th-century war fiction, it made sense for her to revisit some of the old plot ideas and see if anything grabbed her imagination.

The women in the book did not spend their time in WWI indifferently. They took a vital and formidable role in the war effort. When asked why their story is largely forgotten, Quinn explained how women like Louise de Bettignies and Edith Cavell heroes were, celebrated, and medaled and written about in their day. A generation of girls grew up knowing about them, and some were driven by such stories to join the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and become spies themselves in the next world war.

The reason why their stories faded in time is because of women like Pearl Witherington, Nancy Wake, and others like them who eclipsed the ones who came before them, just as World War I itself tends to be overshadowed by World War II. Quinn also added how old sexism played a particular role in gradually forgetting women like Louise. During wartime, women were able to step into male-dominated fields, but after the war was over, they were expected to step back again. In her research, she noticed an evident unease with the idea that women were asked to participate in such a dishonorable business such as spying. It seemed far more comfortable to commend the women who contributed to the war effort in more traditionally feminine roles like nursing.

When asked if the research was challenging to find unclassified material in the book, the author said, "Not really."  She explained how WWI is now more than 100 years in the past; a lot of material is no longer classified. She found excellent first-hand sources: Louise de Bettignies' surviving female lieutenant Leonie van Houtte (known in her book under the code name Violette) married a journalist after the war. Her husband wrote a memoir about her experiences as a spy later. Quinn revealed she had first-hand accounts for many of the scenes and even had to dramatize.

In sharing some surprising facts about female spies, the author revealed how being one is not a glamorous job. Quinn described how movies might make people think spying is all about couture gowns, cocktail parties, and thrilling action, but it was all boredom and danger. Spying back then took a particular kind of courage: not just bracing oneself up for a dangerous act, but prepping to do it repeatedly, for months and possibly years to survive in a war zone.

To further explain the challenges faced by the Alice Network, once caught spying, arrest, trial, sentence to life in prison, or death by firing squad is expected. As the executions of English nurse Edith Cavell and French spy, Gabrielle Petit, can attest, being a woman is not an exception from the death penalty. Aside from espionage dangers, network spies faced the ordinary deprivation of life in a war zone. Shortage of food and fuel, random requisitioned inspections in French homes in anything from kitchen curtains to food stores, was dire in France. Assault and rape were hanging threats; curfews, restrictions, even clocks turned to German time as a reminder who was in charge made daily life miserable.

With the dangers the brave women in the book faced, being a part of the network also affected their lives after the war. Quinn told how PTSD existed if there were wars, whether there was an acknowledged name for it or not. Spies might have experienced a different kind of combat from what the soldiers faced in the trenches, but their fight was still wearing on the nerves. Quinn is sure the Alice Network women had their own struggles when they returned to ordinary civilian life. She attempted to show such a phenomenon with the book's heroine, Eve, who suffers from alcoholism, nightmares, and flashbacks in the years after the war.

Such stories that could bring history to life is what Quinn wanted to present in The Alice Network. She aims for these women who dared to break free from the rules they were born under and fought for their countries with exceptional courage, intelligence, and toughness to be noticed and acknowledged. For Quinn, they deserve to be remembered and emulated.

Workbook Exercises

Discussion Prompt 1: The friendship between women is a constant theme throughout the book. Charlie St. Claire and Eve Gardiner start as enemies, whereas Eve and Louise de Bettignies (Lili) are friends. How does each friendship develop and change throughout events?

Discussion Prompt 2: The young Eve from 1915 is a lot different from the older Eve Charlie saw in 1947. How and when did you notice the change young Eve went through to become her older self? What gave rise to those changes?