Utopia Avenue

'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday Times

The Number One bestselling novel by the author of CLOUD ATLAS, '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 times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their
musical legacy lives on.

This is the story of Utopia Avenue'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.

'The great rock and roll novel - an epic love letter to the greatest music
ever made and the book the music has always deserved' Tony Parsons