'I read through the night to finish this blistering debut, too feverishly engrossed to sleep. Gaunt and Ellwood will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages.' -Maggie O'Farrell, author of The Marriage Portrait

Alice Winn has written a devastating love story between two young men that moves from the sheltered idyll of their public school to the unspeakable horrors of the Western Front during the First World War.

'It's hard to believe that In Memoriam is a debut novel as it's so assured, affecting and moving. I can't remember the last time I was this invested in a love story-all while seeing our darkest history brought wrenchingly to life.' - Sunday Telegraph ' 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.' - New York Times There is an ease to her writing, a zippy confidence, unusual for a debut.' - The Sunday Times (U.K.) 'An epic love story amid the brutalities of war.' - People I couldn't put it down.' - New York Times Book Review Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next.Īn epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood.

Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle-an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood-without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. 'A devastating love story.Gaunt and Ellwood will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages.' -Maggie O'Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait '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.'- The New York Times Description GMA BUZZ PICK - INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I - 'Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.' -Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The Magicians

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