A BOSTON GLOBE BOOK OF THE YEAR "An epic human tale that feels as if it was ripped from English folklore. One in which questions of friendship, creatiive expression, and the life purpose collde with modern British history. A must-read for every Anglophile."—Roger Bennett, Men in Blazers, author of (Re)Born in the USA 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, off-the-grid friend Redbone — set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project, traversing the fields of rural England and creating crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns.     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...   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 — and the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power.  A Boston Globe Best Book of 2022! "The beauty and seeming mystery of the designs gave them (crop circles) a folkloric staying power remarkably at odds with the fragile nature of the form, and these qualities have been nicely conjured in Benjamin Myers’s novel 'The Perfect Golden Circle ,' a sensitive fictionalization of their making...the novel uncovers a plaintive connection between artistic transcendence and personal loneliness." -- Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Terrific, immersive, and wondrous..." -- The Boston Globe "Benjamin Myers uses the efforts of the real-life Bower and Chorley as the jumping-off point for his latest novel...[it] has much to say about art, but it also has an allegorical feel." -- The Star Tribune "A quiet, peculiar, and utterly charming novel about...crop circles ... A winsome pleasure: a novel of friendship, collaboration, and environmental guerrilla art." - Kirkus, starred review "This brilliant, funny, and delightful novel is about misfits finding purpose, and the redemptive power of artistic expression even in the bleakest of circumstances." -- Booklist , starred review "Even as the book explores a 33-year-old historical moment, its concerns — income inequality, police brutality and climate change, among them — remain remarkably current." -- The Southern California News Group "Myers keenly observes the men’s distant yet intimate friendship...the conversations between the two protagonists are illuminating..." -- Publishers Weekly "A thrilling introduction to a British literary star and a moving meditation on history, trauma and the urge to create.. ." -- Shelf Awareness "The two protagonists in the story are truly driven by their art, and their deep-seated need to bring their increasingly grandiose visions to life." -- Artnet "An extraordinary, deftly crafted, and inherently fascinating novel ... that will linger in the mind long after the book is finished and set back upon the shelf..." -- The Midwest Book Review "Myers’ excellent, mesmerizing novel exudes a heart-catching blend of gentle melancholy and surreal but spot-on humor... With its integral reminder of the thriving and vital element of life that exists right under our feet, this is one summer-focused book that will linger with you all year long."  -- The Cascadia Daily News “Nobody does troubled figures in a stunning landscape like Ben Myers. He’s a major force in the English novel and he gets better with every book.” — Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers "Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving, and crucial voices of our times." — David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet “The beauty of Myers’ language alone is reward enough to read this superb novel, but The Perfect Golden Circle offers so much more: an all-too-rare literary depiction of rural England, the depths of the two central characters, the class and ecological concerns; but most of all the human need for what the Welsh poet Bobi Jones called ‘the boundless mystery that comforts being.’  A truly remarkable novel.” — Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena "Powerful, visceral writing . . . Benjamin Myers is one to watch." — Pat Barker, author of Regeneration   "Myers [writes] fierce, gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape out of which the story rises." — Robert Macfarlane, author The Lost Words Praise for Benjamin Myers’s previous books: THE OFFING “This quiet, lyrical novel confirms a powerful new voice.” ― The Times “Every page is studded with descriptive jewels ... Deeply attuned to the natural world ... Poetic ...