WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023It 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
