EVER WONDERED wHY WE LOVE SUNSHINE so much?
‘Compulsive, utterly idiosyncratic, unmistakeably British...’ (The Sunday Times)
'An entertaining cultural history of a nation’s heliophilia' (Times Literary Supplement )
'Boisterous and sentimental' (Financial Times )
'would make something different to read on the beach' (Evening Standard )
'a truly original book' (Good Book Guide)
'idiosyncratic and engrossing' (Coast Magazine)
Robert Mighall is a sunshine obsessive, but only an extreme version of a national type. Sunshine is his witty and romantic celebration of a love so many of us share. Combining popular science with cultural history it is the first book to explain how, why and when sunshine became so important to us.
How Coco Chanel didn’t invent sunbathing, and the scandalous truth behind this urban myth - Why sunshine gives us so much pleasure and might even have some of us addicted - Why we believe summers were longer, hotter and brighter when we were young - And Why the weather provides the perfect metaphor for joyous love or a broken heart in poems and pop songs.
Both a joyous celebration of the source of all life, and a heartfelt lament from the world's cloudiest country, it reads like an open love letter to the most fickle mistress a man ever served.
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