
In Memoriam
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Christian Coulson
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By:
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Alice Winn
GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “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
A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR
“In Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love.”—The New York Times
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.
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Critic reviews
2023, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize: Long-listed
2024, VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize: Winner
A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, and Spectator
"Magnificent—dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
“An epic love story amid the brutalities of war.” —People
“Glorious, addictive, exquisite . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Hugh Ryan, New York Times Book Review
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Great performance, reading the names in the school newspaper was so bleak.
Outstanding
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Superb!!
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I can’t believe this is a debut. The writing is beautiful and vivid without being flowery. So many lines were like an emotional gut punch, heart wrenching.
Excellent character work, tight pacing, evocative setting. And all impeccably narrated.
New all time favorite. 11/10 would recommend
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Going to go recommend it on TikTok now.
I feel like writing a thank you letter to Alice Winn
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The vivid characters
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Unforgettable love story and tribute to the young men who gave their lives in WW1
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Beautiful and haunting
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Epic Gay Romance during WW1 Trench Warfare
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Brilliant
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This Story Will Stay With You
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