The Year Without Summer: 1816 - One Event, Six Lives, A World

The Year Without Summer: 1816 - One Event, Six Lives, A World Changed

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In 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted, impacting the weather throughout the world. The Year Without Summer imagines its impact on six separate lives, thousands of miles away. They include a fenland farm labourer, a soldier returning from Waterloo, author Mary Shelley and painter John Constable. Laura McMillan talks to author Guinevere Glasfurd about her ingenious and poetic novel, The Year Without Summer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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