Alice Winn: ‘We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one’ | Fiction
Alice Winn, 30, is the author of the bestselling novel In Memoriam, about the illicit love between two public schoolboys on the western front. Already the winner of this year’s Waterstones debut fiction prize, it’s currently on the shortlist for Waterstones book of the year, announced on 30 November. Wartime historian Peter Parker recently called it “horrifyingly visceral a remarkable feel for the complicated emotions of her two protagonists... easily the most affecting novel I read this year”. Raised in Paris and…