![]() ![]() ![]() With his huge electric brain, Mitchell has written his own solo scenius, one that draws connections between Edo-era Japan and a distant, post-human-collapse future. Praise for Utopia Avenue: The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerĪ great book! I was completely engrossed for two days. ![]() 'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill' ![]() 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. 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 'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' ( Independent) turns his unique eye on the dark end of the 1960s in this enthralling novel, a story of music, dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact. ![]()
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