'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday TimesThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author
of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this or
any country' (Independent).Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never
heard of.Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 folksinger Elf Holloway blues
bassist Dean Moss guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together
created a unique sound with lyrics that captured their turbulent lives and times. The band
produced only two albums in two years yet their musical legacy lives on.This is the story of
the band's brief blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land
of America just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a
multi-faceted tale of dreams drugs love sexuality madness and grief of stardom's wobbly
ladder and fame's Faustian pact and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded
reality as the Sixties drew to a close.Above all this bewitching novel celebrates the power of
music to connect across divides define an era and thrill the soul.David Mitchell's seven
novels include Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker
Prize and lives in Ireland.
