In Suffolk, the ambitious and lovesick painter John Constable struggles to reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. In Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock begs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door. In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hoggcan barely believe his eyes. Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. ‘A VIVID SLICE OF HISTORICAL FICTION’ Sunday Express ‘A VISION OF THE PAST AND A VISION OF THE FUTURE’ Irish Times ‘RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED’ Observer ‘SUPERB…BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN…UNFORGETTABLE’ FT Weekend ‘A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER’ Guardian
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