In Memoriam

The must-read, Sunday Times bestselling First World War love story

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In Memoriam

Yazan: Alice Winn

Seslendiren: Christian Coulson

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WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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 too.

When Gaunt's mother asks him to enlist, he signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him to the front. Ellwood and Gaunt find love in the trenches – but just as war brought them together, it can tear them apart…

An epic, unforgettable love story between two soldiers in the First World War, In Memoriam is a breath-taking debut.

‘If you haven’t read it, you’re missing out’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY

'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years . . . please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY

'A genuine page-turner' Sunday Times

'BIRDSONG for a new generation' JOANNA QUINN, author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE

'I can't remember the last time I was this invested in a love story' Sunday Telegraph

'Assured, affecting and moving' MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of HAMNET

‘Will smash your heart to smithereens' Daily Mail

Alice WinnChristian CoulsonPenguin

20th Century

Historical

Historical Fiction

Kurgu

Romantik

World War I

Aşırı duygusal

Samimi

Savaş

20th Century Historical Historical Fiction Kurgu Romantik World War I Aşırı duygusal Samimi Savaş

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It's hard to believe that In Memoriam is a debut novel as it's so assured, affecting and moving. 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. Gaunt and Ellwood will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages. (Maggie O'Farrell)

One of the best debuts I've read in recent years: immersive, rousing, tender and devastating. In Memoriam is both a deeply moving love story and a visceral evocation of the Great War, impressively free of cliche. Winn makes such important points about class, destruction and the loss of innocence. I loved it with a startling ferocity (Elizabeth Day)

An instant classic (Sara Collins)

A tender, affecting debut . . . Winn strikingly evokes the torment and brutality of life of the front

If you haven't read it, you're missing out (Bonnie Garmus)

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 . . . Acts of revenge, moonlit escapes from POW camps, serendipities just wild enough to be credible - all bound from the page with a clarity best described as cinematic, while even in the direst moments Winn's dialogue thrums with mirth and furious intelligence. Throughout, she artfully switches perspectives and settings, leaving the reader in desperate suspense over fates and fortunes.

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 . . . Winn was 26 years old when she began it, but "In Memoriam" doesn't read like its author was still finding her footing as a writer

Alice Winn's propulsive, visceral and heartrending debut takes an all-too-familiar setting and brilliantly reframes it via a feverish gay love story . . . Winn skillfully uses the school as a microcosm, making us feel the loss of each boy, each friend, each brother . . . but what keeps you turning the page is the tender central romance . . . I can't remember the last time I was this invested in a love story - all the while seeing our darkest history brought wrenchingly to life

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

First love, class, male camaraderie and the horrors of the war are all explored in this quietly heartbreaking epic with the unforgettable appeal of Birdsong

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Haunting depiction of First World War through the lens of forbidden love. The narrator is the best I’ve ever encountered, the book is most dialogue and he manages to give each character a distinctive voice. Difficult to believe this is a debut novel.