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|reviewer= Luke Marlowe
|genre=General Fiction
|summary = An engrossing tale of love, life and death in a post Second World War TB sanitarium, ''The Dark Circle'' is a superbly written tale taking in a fascinating range of characters in an unusual and compelling period setting.
|rating=5
|buy=Yes
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900675X</amazonuk>
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'''Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017'''
It's 1949, and with the Second World War over, a new decade of recovery is beginning. For East End teenagers Lenny and Miriam, life has been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away to a sanatorium in Kent, to take the cure, submit to the way of the Doctors, and learn the deferential way of the patient. Through doors newly opened by the one year old NHS, come Lenny in his striped London drape suit, and Miriam in cherry felt red coat, and beret pinned gingerly onto her blue-black curls. Trapped in a sterile closed environment, the twins find themselves meeting air force officers, a car salesman, a university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member of the Aristocracy, and, arriving to blast away their lethargic submission to authority - an American merchant seaman. Together they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, and may only be gained through full scale rebellion...
