{"product_id":"utopia-avenue-david-mitchell-9781444799477","title":"Utopia Avenue","description":"'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT\nThe Number One Sunday Times Bestseller\n'Wildly entertaining'\nSPECTATOR\n'A stand-out triumph'\nSUNDAY TIMES\n'Superb'\nLITERARY REVIEW\n'Impressive'\nNEW YORKER\n'Highly entertaining'\nTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\nA story of music and dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, from the acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas\nThe 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. Strangers to each other and from widely different backgrounds, together they create magic. Meet Utopia Avenue.\nThis 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. 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.\nPRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL\n'A thrilling and gifted writer'\nFINANCIAL TIMES\n'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'\nDAILY MAIL\n'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'\nNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'\nINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\n'A superb storyteller'\nTHE NEW YORKER","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49498800128288,"sku":"9781444799477","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781444799477.jpg?v=1767787326","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/utopia-avenue-david-mitchell-9781444799477","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}