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To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at. The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers is published by Bloomsbury (£16.99). The notion neatly encapsulates the generosity of Myers’s magnetic novel, which brings together ingredients as diverse as folk song, Gaia theory and trauma, grounding them all in a memorable hymn to beauty. Which means, he adds, “that we each carry one within us”. As Redbone explains, there is no such thing as a truly perfect circle, it “can only ever exist as an idea”. The novel’s title derives from a conversation between the men. For their season finale, they’re planning something extra special: the Honeycomb Double Helix, “a web of wonder” that promises to be nearly three times as long as the Palace of Westminster is high. Their friendship makes a beguiling counterpoint to the novel’s more epic preoccupations. His main characters are acutely aware of it – their industry, it’s hinted, flows from it – and the humbling sense of perspective this confers is balm and inspiration. There is, he writes, “an under-England, a chthonic place of hidden rivers and buried relics, of the bones of extinct animals and battle-slain bodies”. As it turns out, these rural nights are buzzing not just with wildlife but with fly-tippers, confused nonagenarians, and sloshed lords of the manor.īathed in moonlight, Myers’s land thrums with more ancient reverberations, too. As well as weathering minor inconveniences such as hay fever and rain, the pair must also remain vigilant against interruption. A leading benefit of Golden Circle membership.
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Bathed in moonlight, Myers’s land thrums with more ancient reverberationsĬrop circles require meticulous planning. The Golden Circle is comprised of a nation-wide community of leaders who share a passion for a world free of MS. While Redbone lives in an old camper van, is immersed in the crust punk scene and prone to visions hallucinogenic and otherwise, Calvert is a solitary SAS veteran, battle scarred inwardly as well as outwardly from his service in the Falklands. Like the characters in the author’s previous work, which spans historical fiction and rural noir, and includes the 2021 short story collection Male Tears, these men are outsiders. It centres on the creators of the crop circles, quintessential odd couple Redbone and Calvert.