The Dark Circle Synopsis
Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officers, a car salesman, a young university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member of the aristocracy and an American merchant seaman. They discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach and only by inciting wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched.
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Linda Grant Press Reviews
'Exhilaratingly good ... This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas ... Grant brings the 1950s - that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation - into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus' -- Christobel Kent, Guardian
'A Grant novel is always a treat ... Grant captures the stigma that surrounded TB perfectly' Evening Standard
'A writer whose language crackles with vitality and whose descriptive powers are working at such a high level' Spectator
'Linda Grant brings a forgotten slice of social and medical history to life by conjuring a rich cast of disparate - though equally desperate - characters observed with wry humour and affection to produce an absorbing and profoundly moving story' -- John Harding Daily Mail
'The novel is funny but also poignant ... I loved it Stylist The Dark Circle is, beneath its narrative surface, fiercely political. She poses a large, naggingly relevant, question. What would (will?) privatisation of the NHS mean? Read this fine, persuasive, moving novel and contemplate - if you can dare to - that awful possibility' -- John Sutherland The Times
