In 1989 rural England, two very different men undertake an extraordinary project, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, but when their work attracts media attention and the authorities, they must race to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived. 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 inequalityly, and the power of beauty

Rural England, summer, 1989. Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falkland War, and his friend Redbone, set off nightly to form crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. Their designs are intricate, and become ever more ambitious as the summer wears on. As harvest time approaches, the media and the authorities are taking too much interest in their work-- and Calvert and Redbone are racing to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived: The Honeycomb Double Helix. -- adapted from jacket