Alice Winn

After spending her formative years in Paris, Alice Winn was educated at a British boarding school in Wiltshire and later obtained a degree in English Literature at Oxford University. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York City, and writes screenplays.

Published in 2023 to much critical acclaim, her bestselling first novel, In Memoriam, follows a love story between two young men from a British boarding school to the trenches of the First World War. It won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023, hailed by our booksellers as ‘completely engrossing and thoroughly poignant’ and ‘quietly heartbreaking’ – a novel with ‘a resonance and profundity that will shake you,’was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2023 and named the Waterstones Novel of the Year 2023.