GMA Buzz Pick • International Best Seller & Award Winner
“A haunting, virtuosic debut.” —Maggie O’Farrell, bestselling author of Hamnet
1914. As World War I rages across Europe, Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood remain safe in their idyllic English boarding school. For them, war is a distant adventure, made thrilling by tales of heroism. But Gaunt is fighting his own private battle—an all-consuming love for Ellwood, his best friend, without knowing that Ellwood secretly longs for him too.
When Gaunt’s family urges him to enlist to avoid anti-German suspicion, he does so—fleeing his emotions as much as the war. But when Ellwood follows him to the front, the horrors of battle strip away all illusions.
A sweeping novel of forbidden love and the devastating cost of war, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut that will stay with you long after the final page.
