![]() ![]() The “year without summer” is well known in literary history as the year which begat Shelley’s Frankenstein and Byron’s The Darkness, but Glasfurd’s second novel, The Year Without Summer, tells a series of six stories, only one of which focuses on the well-trodden story of the Romantic writers. ![]() Looking backwards through the lens of later scientific research, Guinevere Glasfurd’s novel makes this link between volcanic activity and climate change explicit, exploring the ramifications on a wide cast of characters. Crop failure, famine, epidemics of typhus and cholera, and social unrest all attended the disaster. The resulting ash cloud meant that the effects were also felt globally: there was a sudden cooling in the northern hemisphere. A further 100,000 died in the following weeks across the region from starvation and disease. After the eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815, 12,000 people died on Sumbawa, Indonesia. ![]()
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