{"product_id":"9781473672338","title":"The Year Without Summer : 1816 - one event, six lives, a world changed","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Glasfurd, Guinevere, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/02\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Two Roads,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: John Murray Press,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Historical fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781473672338\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hoggcan barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail. 1816In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock begs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve. In Suffolk, the ambitious and lovesick painter John Constable struggles to reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. In the Fens, farm labourer Sarah Hobbs has had enough of going hungry while the farmers flaunt their wealth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Hope Peter, 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\u003eThe Year Without Summer is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38079843041433,"sku":"9781473672338","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781473672338.jpg?v=1613410973","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781473672338","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}