I read through the night to finish this blistering debut, too feverishly engrossed to sleep. When was the last time characters in a novel seemed so real to me, so cherishable, so alive? Alice Winn has made familiar history fresh; no account of the First World War has made me feel so vividly its horror, or how irrevocably it mutilated the world. That In Memoriam is also an extraordinary love story is a sign of Winn's wild ambition and her prodigious gifts: this is a novel that claims both beauty and brutality, the whole range of human life.
GARTH GREENWELL, AUTHOR OF CLEANNESS AND WHAT BELONGS TO YOU

Winn offers a fresh look at a subject many of us believe we know well. A tender story as much about love as it is about war
ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN

Alice Winn has pulled off a remarkable feat in making these men and the horrors of the First World War come so viscerally alive. It was like looking at a black and white photograph which has been colourised, and suddenly you understand that these shadowy people from the past also dreamed and cried and breathed just as we do now. I was completely absorbed, moved, and transported
CLAIRE FULLER, AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND

In Memoriam is magnificent-dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement. I loved it
LEV GROSSMAN, AUTHOR OF THE MAGICIANS