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The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers
Narrated by: Tim Key
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 Bloomsbury presents The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers, read by Tim Key.

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 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 – traumatized 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©2022 Benjamin Myers (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Fantasy Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Heartfelt Witty Paranormal

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So well written and narrated, I was completely drawn in by the characters, the subject and their imagination and commitment to their art!

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This is more fiction than fantasy about 2 friends making crop circles.
The only fantastic part about the entire thing is that the one drawing them is inspired but not ore that a great painter.
Great writing, really gives you the sense of intimacy but ends up like dust in the wind.

Good story but not much fantasy

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A simply wonderful book read extremely and sympathetically well. Quirky and a bit magic, quite moving and full of the knowledgeable love of nature. Two strange men come together to create beauty in secret for no discernible personal gain…. If anyone has ever seen and/or marvelled at the exquisite crop circles that occurred in SW England and loves English written with flourish and delicacy and is country-minded this will resonate and greatly please

An unusual delight

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A beautiful gentle book about the English countryside, creativity, myth, mystery and friendship. Wonderful book

Beautiful

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Hauntingly beautiful book. Nature, a relationship between two very different people and social comment. All told in beautiful prose. Read quietly and understated.

Wonderful

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