Utopia Avenue

ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRYINDEPENDENT
The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
Wildly entertaining
SPECTATOR

A stand-out triumph
SUNDAY TIMES

Superb
LITERARY REVIEW

Impressive
NEW YORKER

Highly entertaining
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

A story of music and dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, from the acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas
The year is 1967 and word is spreading about a new band on Londons psychedelic scene - an unlikely combination of a female folksinger, a blues bassist, a jazz drummer and an electric guitarist. Strangers to each other and from widely different backgrounds, together they create magic. Meet Utopia Avenue.

This is the story of a unique bands 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 fames pitfalls. 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.

PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL
A thrilling and gifted writer
FINANCIAL TIMES

Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good
DAILY MAIL

Mitchell is, clearly, a genius
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

An author of extraordinary ambition and skill
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

A superb storyteller
THE NEW YORKER