Those melting words, in England
Scorching summers have upended centuries of English literary romanticisation of the season. Continentals always knew better: summers are sweaty & sticky
When George Harrison crooned, “Here comes the sun” nearly six decades ago, he was voicing a beloved literary trope about English summers.
Sweet and mild, ripe with fruit and flower, as fleeting as it was welcome, it was the season to be sunny in a country known for grey skies.
This year’s heatwave has blasted that time-honoured reputation of an English summer to smithereens.
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