WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEARIt was only because Gaunt knew he might die that he could be so
reckless as to kiss him. 'Assured affecting and moving. Alice Winn has written a devastating
love story between two young men on the Western Front' MAGGIE O'FARRELL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
HAMNET ______________________ In 1914 war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood.
They're too young to enlist and anyway Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an
all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that his best
friend is in love with him always has been. When Gaunt's mother asks him to enlist in the
British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks he signs up immediately relieved
to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the
horrors of trenches. Though Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another
their friends are dying in front of them and at any moment they could be next. An epic tale of
the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip In Memoriam
is a breathtaking debut.THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER March 2023 ______________________
'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years: immersive rousing tender and devastating .
. . please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY 'BIRDSONG for a new generation' JOANNA QUINN
AUTHOR OF THE WHALEBONE THEATRE 'Like looking at a black and white photograph which has been
colourised . . . I was completely absorbed moved and transported' CLAIRE FULLER AUTHOR OF
UNSETTLED GROUND 'When was the last time characters in a novel seemed so real to me so
cherishable so alive?' GARTH GREENWELL AUTHOR OF CLEANNESS and WHAT BELONGS TO YOU'A vivid
rendering of love and frontline brutality in the first world war . . . In Memoriam is at once
epic and intimate humorous and profound a vivid rendering of the madness and legacy of the
first world war as seen through the lens of a schoolboy love affair' Observer 'A tender
affecting debut . . . Winn strikingly evokes the torment and brutality of life of the front'
The Times'Propulsive visceral and heartrending . . . I can't remember the last time I was this
invested in a love story' Sunday Telegraph 'A genuine page-turner' Sunday Times 'In Memoriam is
gripping tender immersive and most of all completely unforgettable' i Fiction Pick of the
Month 'Alice Winn's devastating debut will smash your heart to smithereens . . . as thousands
of young men die in the most horrific of ways Gaunt and Ellwood attempt to survive the
slaughter and keep their love alive' Daily Mail'IN MEMORIAM is the story of a great tragedy
but it is also a moving portrait of young love and there is often a lightness to the book
even humor. It's a difficult balancing act but one that Winn who is erudite fast talking and
very funny pulls off' New York Times Sunday Times bestseller November 2023
