And Ellwood makes full use of this allowance to experiment. Within the boarding school which they attend, there are these sort of secret, obscure rules around homosexuality, where it's sort of OK to experiment as long as you do it very quietly in the dark and no one ever finds out. WINN: Gaunt and Ellwood are very close friends, and they both believe their love is unrequited. KELLY: I want to begin with the moment in which Gaunt and Ellwood become lovers because this was a century ago, and it was illegal for two men to be lovers. Alice Winn, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.ĪLICE WINN: Thank you so much for having me. And along the way, in this remarkable debut novel, they fall in love. And so again and again, he pushes Gaunt - I know you're fine, but are you all right? These two young men are friends, boarding school classmates, then soldiers together, fighting for Britain in the trenches of the First World War. When asked how he's doing, he's prone to replying with a terse I'm fine, but Ellwood knows better. 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.
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