In Memoriam -- Alice Winn, Hardcover

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

It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. 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. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.

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. 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. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next.

An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

Author: Alice Winn
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/07/2023
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.70w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780593534564

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2023
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2023
Booklist 02/15/2023 pg. 28