First we meet Evelyn, a 22-year-old spy recruited for WWI, when she was noticed for her ease with English, French and German while working in a file room. Quinn’s novel switches perspectives between two people, Evelyn Gardiner and Charlotte St. But every different aspect blends together seamlessly, creating an intricate plot without overwhelming the reader. The book holds aspects of almost every genre imaginable: love, revenge, adventure and so much more. No book has ever captivated me as much as Quinn’s novel, and what makes it even better is that it’s based off of a true story. Some of my favorites across the years.“The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn tells the story of female spies in World War I and World War II - which are virtually untold. "There's so much great World War II fiction out there, and more being written every year. Quinn Recommends Her Favorite World War II Novels
A more badass collection of heroines I have yet to find, and they positively begged to be written about! It took a great deal of research-everything from war crimes trial records to Soviet pilot memoirs to learning how to virtually fly a Po-2 in a computer flight simulator-but eventually I figured out how the story of the Nazi murderess gone to ground in America, the team of investigators trying to track her down, and the former Night Witch flier who is the key to the hunt could all come together in one novel. And who could track someone like that down, across the years and around half the globe, from war-torn Europe to postwar white-picket-fence suburban America?īut that was only half the story I ended up telling, because even as I was researching war criminals and Nazi hunters, I came across the stunning real-life story of the Night Witches, an all-female regiment of bomber pilots who flew against Hitler's eastern front. Her American husband and neighbors were apparently stunned by the news, and I wondered what would it be like to find out you had been living with someone who had such a terrible dark side. KQ: I came across the fascinating story of the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States for war crimes: a housewife living in New York City who had a secret past as a brutal camp guard. GR: What sparked the idea for The Huntress? And tell us about your research for the book. I've been writing ever since, and I doubt I'll ever stop. I was seven when I wrote my first short story (all about the assassination of Edward II-seriously!) and ten when I wrote my first novel (121 double-spaced pages of pure melodramatic awful about a medieval Irish girl and her horse. Given that background, it felt very natural to gravitate toward the past when I began telling stories of my own. KQ: My librarian mother has a degree in classical and medieval history, so as a child I was getting bedtime stories about Elizabeth I rising to the throne and Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, not Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty.
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