In Memoriam By Alice Winn (Grades 7-9)

Alice Winn grew up in Paris and was educated in the UK. She currently lives in Brooklyn and is the author of In Memoriam. It’s 1914, and World War I is churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, are safely ensconced in their boarding school in the English countryside. Gaunt is busy fighting his own private battle–an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the charming Ellwood. When Gaunt’s family asks him to enlist, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt’s horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow.