{"product_id":"9781473672307-the-year-without-summer","title":"The Year Without Summer","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1816 - one event, six lives, a world changed - longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1815, a supervolcanic eruption led to the extraordinary 'Year Without Summer' in 1816: a massive climate disruption causing famine, poverty and riots. Snow fell in August. Lives, both ordinary and privileged, changed forever. By the Costa shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Words in My Hand.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'SUPERB.BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.UNFORGETTABLE' \u003ci\u003eFT Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'SKILFUL' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED' \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'VIVIDLY REALISED' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A VISION OF THE PAST AND A VISION OF THE FUTURE' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A VIVID SLICE OF HISTORICAL FICTION'\u003ci\u003e Sunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, \u003cb\u003eship surgeon Henry Hogg\u003c\/b\u003ecan barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1816\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Switzerland, \u003cb\u003eMary Shelley \u003c\/b\u003efinds dark inspiration. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door. In Vermont, \u003cb\u003epreacher Charles Whitlock \u003c\/b\u003ebegs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Suffolk, the ambitious and lovesick \u003cb\u003epainter John Constable\u003c\/b\u003e struggles to reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. In the Fens, farm labourer \u003cb\u003eSarah Hobbs \u003c\/b\u003ehas had enough of going hungry while the farmers flaunt their wealth. And \u003cb\u003eHope Peter\u003c\/b\u003e, returned from the Napoleonic wars, finds his family home demolished and a fence gone up in its place. He flees to London, where he falls in with a group of revolutionaries who speak of a better life, whatever the cost. As desperation sets in, Britain becomes beset by riots - rebellion is in the air.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Year Without Summer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the story of the books written, the art made; of the journeys taken, of the love longed for and the lives lost during that fateful year. Six separate lives, connected only by an event many thousands of miles away. Few had heard of Tambora - but none could escape its effects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'VIVID, VIBRANT, HARD TO PUT DOWN' Hilary Spurling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'THOUGHT-PROVOKING, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND VERY COMPELLING' Harriet Tyce\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'INGENIOUS AND ABSORBING' Kirsty Wark \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'ASTONISHING, RIVETING, MASTERFUL, POETIC' Emily Rapp Black \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A WORLDWIDE CANVAS BROUGHT TO LIFE IN VIVID, HEARTBREAKING DETAIL' Marianne Kavanagh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41602651521121,"sku":"9781473672307","price":14.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_22640196.jpg?v=1712913446","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781473672307-the-year-without-summer","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}