In memoriam alice winn7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought: ‘God, do we really need another World War One story about public school boys. If you're a fan of the show, please remember to subscribe and rate us 5-stars on Apple and Spotify. Before Alice Winn wrote her bestselling debut novel In Memoriam, she had a momentary wobble. We also learn how inspiration for the novel came from reading archival newspapers published by her alma mater, Marlborough, regularly listing the wounded and dead amongst former students throughout the war.įinally, her cat makes a most welcome appearance on mic a first for The Hatchards Podcast. In Memoriam by Alice Winn: 9780593534564 : Books GMA BUZZ PICK INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I Dazzling. ![]() Gaunt is the more guarded and taciturn of the two. On this episode, we were joined by Alice Winn, author of the Hatchards Fiction Book of the Month, 'In Memoriam,' her highly-acclaimed debut.īeginning at the onset of WWI, Winn's novel follows lifelong friends Gaunt and Ellwood from the confines of their cloistered English boarding school to the horrors of trench warfare, as a forbidden romance of fits-and-stars slowly blossoms between them.Īlice spoke to us about the parallels in attitude felt by young people during that time period and the present taking ideas from the life of Siegfried Sassoon and the dangers of complacency within a peacetime society. In Alice Winns new novel, 'In Memoriam,' theres a line that one of the two main characters keeps saying to the other. ![]()
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