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kingarooski's review
5.0
This is a very good book based on multiple points of view, set in 1815 and 1816, following the explosion of Mount Tambora. The explosion of this volcano had far-reaching effects with changes to climate, which included droughts, hail and snow in the summer and heavy rains. As readers, we follow six characters as the impact of the explosion affects their lives. We meet Henry Hogg, a surgeon on a ship sent to investigate the cause of the noise. We also encounter Mary Shelley, John Constable, Charles Whitlock (a preacher in Vermont), Sarah Hobbs (a farm labourer in the Fens) and Hope Peter (a soldier returning home from the Napoleanic war). The stories are not linked with each other, they are merely the experiences each of these characters lives through. I found them fascinating and moving.
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