NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Alice Winn about her debut book In Memoriam, a love story following two boarding school classmates fighting for Britain in the trenches of World War I.

Alice Winn’s In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023 The novel, set in the First World War, was described as ‘comfortingly classic yet daringly original’ by judges.

Alice Winn is a 31-year-old Irish and American novelist and screenwriter born and raised in Paris. Her debut novel, "In Memoriam," involves a forbidden love story during the Great War.

By Philippa Tracy Alice Winn’s compelling debut novel In Memoriam is a page-turner. Published in 2023, it is a love story that deals with big themes: forbidden love and the First World War. It ...

In Memoriam Alice Winn. Knopf, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-53456-4. Winn’s superb debut chronicles a romance between two English boarding school classmates during WWI.

In Alice Winn's new novel, "In Memoriam," there's a line that one of the two main characters keeps saying to the other. Gaunt is the more guarded and taciturn of the two.

In Alice Winn's new novel, "In Memoriam," there's a line that one of the two main characters keeps saying to the other. Gaunt is the more guarded and taciturn of the two.

In Alice Winn's new novel, "In Memoriam," there's a line that one of the two main characters keeps saying to the other. Gaunt is the more guarded and taciturn of the two.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Alice Winn about her debut book In Memoriam, a love story following two boarding school classmates fighting for Britain in the trenches of World War I.