WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDA TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT OF THE YEARIf you havent read it youre missing out BONNIE GARMUS BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LESSONS IN CHEMISTRYA devastating love story between two young men on the Western Front MAGGIE OFARRELL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAMNET In 1914 war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. Theyre too young to enlist and anyway Gaunt is fighting his own private battle an allconsuming infatuation with the dreamy poetic Ellwood not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him always has been.When Gaunts mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from antiGerman attacks he signs up immediately relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the horrors of the trenches. Though Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another their friends are dying in front of them and at any moment they could be next.An epic tale of the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER March 2023One of the best debuts Ive read in recent years immersive rousing tender and devastating . . . please rush out and buy it ELIZABETH DAYBIRDSONG for a new generation JOANNA QUINN AUTHOR OF THE WHALEBONE THEATRELike looking at a black and white photograph which has been colourised . . . I was completely absorbed moved and transported CLAIRE FULLER AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUNDWhen was the last time characters in a novel seemed so real to me so cherishable so alive GARTH GREENWELL AUTHOR OF CLEANNESS and WHAT BELONGS TO YOUIn 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 ObserverPropulsive visceral and heartrending . . . I cant remember the last time I was thi