In Memoriam : A novel

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Part I Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Part II Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-one Chapter Twenty-two Chapter Twenty-three Chapter Twenty-four Chapter Twenty-five Chapter Twenty-six Chapter Twenty-seven Chapter Twenty-eight Chapter Twenty-nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-one Chapter Thirty-two Chapter Thirty-three Chapter Thirty-four Chapter Thirty-five Chapter Thirty-six Part III Chapter Thirty-seven Chapter Thirty-eight Chapter Thirty-nine Chapter Forty Chapter Forty-one Chapter Forty-two Chapter Forty-three Chapter Forty-four Chapter Forty-five Chapter Forty-six Acknowledgements Historical Note A Note About the Author Landmarks Cover Cover Title Page Contents Start Copyright Print Page List iii iv v viii ix x xi 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 149 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 319 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am forever grateful to Anna Stein for being the kind of agent every writer dreams of. Thank you to her assistant, Julie Flanagan, to my U.K. agent, Sophie Lambert, and to Claire Nozieres and Grace Robinson, who were in charge of foreign rights. All of them have improved my life immeasurably. I am also so lucky to have had Will Watkins to guide me through selling the film rights. I would never have known any of these wonderful people if it weren’t for John Burnham, who plucked me out of obscurity with the most exciting phone call of my life. I am indebted to my U.S. and U.K. editors, Diana Tejerina Miller and Isabel Wall. I thought the book was done—I was wrong! Their careful, methodical edits made a profound difference to the book. I’m grateful to have worked with the kinds of editors who not only improve the book, but also how you write. Thank you also to Chloe Davies at Viking for her unwavering support, Vanessa Haughton for all her help and the teams at Knopf and Viking for being so good at their jobs. A special thanks to Maggie Hinders and the design team—the newspapers were a logistical nightmare from start to finish, but they are such an integral part of the book and it has been incredible seeing them come to life. My writing has been shaped and crafted by my brilliant, rigorous friends, most of whom read not only this book but the three unpublished novels before it: Sylvia Bishop, Lizzy Christman, Mik Clements, Chesca Forristal, Clara Mamet, Adam Mastroianni, Nicola Phillips, Ed Scrivens, Zander Sharp, Julia Wald, Melisa Wallack and Yael van der Wouden. Without their faith and hard work, I would never have been capable of writing a book about something as huge as World War I. I am similarly grateful to my readers online, who encouraged me and taught me so much, so painlessly. Thank you also to Julie Oh, Laurie Christman, Nita Krevans, Ellie Darkins and Aimee Liu for their kind words and encouragement, to Greg Berlanti, Mike McGrath, Robbie Rogers and Sarah Schechter for their belief in me, and to Theo Hodson, Archie Cornish and Zander Sharp for lengthy interviews about boarding school. Throughout writing, I was constantly grateful to Marlborough College for putting so much amazing archive material online. Anyone who knows Marlborough will see how it impacted the writing of this novel. I hope my old housemaster, Tim Marvin, and people who were at Preshute with me will forgive the use of the name. I have been fortunate enough to have a long list of wonderful English teachers, but two come to mind when I think of this book. James Taylor introduced me to Journey’s End when I was thirteen. It remains one of my favourite plays to this day because of how vividly he taught it. Dr. Simon McKeown was a wonderful English teacher at Marlborough, and helped