by Joe Shute (Bloomsbury £16.99, 272 pp)
What on earth would we British find to talk about if it weren’t for the weather? Oscar Wilde may have declared that discussing the weather is ‘the last refuge of the unimaginative’, but you can’t blame us for being obsessed by it when it’s so endlessly changeable.
This summer is already shaping up to be one of extremes. In the last two weeks alone, some areas of Britain have had monsoon-like rain, swiftly followed by a blast of heat so strong that it ‘melted roads like chocolate’ in Somerset although compared to Germany and Belgium, where flooding has led to hundreds of deaths, you could say we’ve got off fairly lightly so far.
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