'Winn's accomplished debut presents two indelible characters - athletic Henry Gaunt and lyrical Sidney Ellwood, English boarding school chums who both believe their love for each other is unrequited. 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 - The Daily Mail 'Alice Winn's devastating debut will smash your heart to smithereens.
Winn strikingly evokes the torment and brutality of life of the front - The Times I loved it with a startling ferocity' - Elizabeth Day Winn makes such important points about class, destruction and the loss of innocence. In Memoriam is both a deeply moving love story and a visceral evocation of the Great War, impressively free of cliche. 'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years: immersive, rousing, tender and devastating. Gaunt and Ellwood will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages.' - Maggie O'Farrell 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. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241567821 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 514 g Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 36 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Once in the trenches, Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, but their friends are all dying, right in front of them, and at any moment they could 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. Before long, their classmates have followed suit. The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him, spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry. When Gaunt's German mother asks him to enlist as an officer in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, Gaunt signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that Ellwood is in love with him, always has been. It's 1914, and talk of war 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. A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World War.
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