![]() ![]() ![]() We can rattle off dates and times, impressive statistics and jaw-dropping moments but if pressed, we are usually unable to talk about this or that epoch-defining event affected the people who lived through it.įortunately we have consummately skilled writers like Guinevere Glasfurd and her impressive novel The Year Without Summer to remember for us with empathy and understanding of how extraordinary moments can transform the lives of ordinary people, she explores how a massive, climate-changing volcanic explosion in the Indonesian archipelago in 1815 (at that point, of course it was a series of largely Dutch-controlled islands) affected not simply the lives of a disparate number of people caught in its wake but of the societies of which they were a part. ![]() History tends to be remembered by most of us in big broad brushstroke terms. (cover image courtesy Hachette Australia) ![]()
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