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The Perfect Golden Circle
Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022
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This novel will appeal to readers interested in thoughtful, atmospheric stories blending rural life and speculative elements. Fans of character-driven narratives, social commentary, and poetic prose set in the English countryside will find this a compelling and moving read.
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Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2022
The BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick
Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022
'In this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and enlightenment by creating crop formations in a Wiltshire field ... A memorable hymn to beauty' OBSERVER
'The pleasures of this bountiful novel are like a glass of cool water on a parched summer day' THE TIMES
‘A spirited and anarchic novel... a roiling, rollicking crop-circle folk tale’ GUARDIAN
England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men – traumatised Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone – set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.
Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. 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.
Moving and exhilarating, tender and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel about the futility of war, the destruction of the English countryside, class inequality – and the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power.
'Brilliantly constructed and steeped in rural atmosphere' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best summer books of 2022
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526631404
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 May 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Circus
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His most recent novel, The Offing, was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club. Other works include The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, Caught By The River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.
benmyers.com / @BenMyers1
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