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 )
'idiosyncratic and engrossing' (Coast Magazine)
Sunshine is the first book to attempt to explain why, when and how we became so besotted. It tells how the sun become a symbol of health, hope and freedom in the early 20th century, and why we have much to thank the nudists for.
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.
Sunshine is an obsessive's anatomy of a very common obsession. An open love letter to the most fickle mistress a man ever served.
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