![]() ![]() There’s no time-hopping, apart from a brief epilogue set in the present, or elegant experiments in genre-busting in Mitchell’s latest novel, his first since Slade House (2015). Capturing a time when youthful idealism collided with jaded reality, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul. UTOPIA AVENUE by David Mitchell RELEASE DATE: JNoted novelist Mitchell returns with a gritty, richly detailed fable from rock’s golden age. ![]() This is the story of a unique band’s brief, blazing journey from Soho dives to chart success and on to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was giving way to something much darker – a tale of dreams, drugs, sexuality, madness and grief, and of fame’s pitfalls. Strangers to each other and from widely different backgrounds, together they create magic. ![]() The year is 1967 and word is spreading about a new band on London’s psychedelic scene – an unlikely combination of a female folksinger, a blues bassist, a jazz drummer and an electric guitarist. ‘ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY’ IndependentĪ story of music and dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, from the acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band youve never heard of. ![]()
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