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Patterns in the grass: The Perfect Golden Circle, by Benjamin Myers, reviewed

14 May 2022

9:00 AM

14 May 2022

9:00 AM

The Perfect Golden Circle Benjamin Myers

Bloomsbury Circus, pp.256, 16.99

The Perfect Golden Circle is ostensibly about male friendship. Two men, flotsam of the 1980s – Calvert, a Falklands veteran, and Redbone, a failed punk musician – tramp across the English countryside in 1989 making crop circles. ‘Redburn sees life as a thrilling continuum, Calvert considers it a conundrum that can never be solved, only endured.’

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