The Perfect Golden Circle

by Myers, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9781612199580
• ISBN10: 1612199585
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781612199597
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-05-17
• Publisher: Melville House
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Summary

Summer 1989, deep in the English countryside — during a time of mass unemployment, class war, and rebellion . . . .
 
Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men — Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falklands War, and his affable freind Redbone — set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project. 
 
Under cover of darkness, they traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, painstakingly avoiding damaging the wheat to yield designs so intricate that their overnight appearances inspire awe amongst a mystified public.
 
And as the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation—and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold. 
 
But as harvest-time beckons—and as media and the authorities begin to take too much interest in their work—Calvert and Redbone have to race against time to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived: the Honeycomb Double Helix.
 
Moving and exhilarating, tender and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel about the futility of war, the descruction of the English countryside, class inequality — ower of beauty to heal trauma and fight power. 

Author Biography

Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist, whose work has been translated into many languages. His novels include the best-seller The Offing, which was serialized on BBC Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime', was a London Times Book of the Year, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick and an Observer pick for 2019. It was also a bestseller in Germany. His other titles include The Gallows Pole, which the won Walter Scott Prize 2018, the world's largest prize for historical fiction; These Darkening Days; Turning Blue and Beastings, winner of the Portico Prize For Literature and a Northern Writers’ Award.

Pig Iron (2012) won the Gordon Burn Prize and Richard (2010) was a bestseller, chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its books of the year.  His writing has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Mojo, New Statesman, New Scientist, The Spectator, The Big Issue, Le Monde, Caught By The River and others.

He was born in Durham, UK, in 1976. He currently lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, UK.

www.benmyers.com