Glasfurd, Guinevere: The Year Without Summer

Name: Glasfurd, Guinevere: The Year Without Summer
Brand: John Murray Press
SKU: 978-1-4736-7229-1
Price: 29.90 CHF
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1816 - one event, six lives, a world changed - longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021

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A supervolcanic eruption leads to a 'year without Summer' in 1816, with climate disruption causing snow in August, and bringing about decisive and significant junctures for a cast of real and imagined characters, with the former category including Mary Shelley and John Constable.

ISBN: 978-1-4736-7229-1

GTIN: 9781473672291

Über den Autor Glasfurd, Guinevere

Guinevere Glasfurd is a critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Words in my Hand, was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa First Novel Award and Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and was longlisted in France for the Prix du Roman FNAC. Her second novel, The Year Without Summer, was written with support from the MacDowell Foundation, longlisted for the Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize 2021 and shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award 2020. Awarded grants from the Arts Council England and the British Council for her work, her writing has also appeared in The Scotsman, Mslexia and in a collection published by the National Galleries of Scotland. Originally from Lancaster, she now lives near Cambridge with her husband and daughter.