Staff Picks: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

December 28, 2020December 21, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Bob Blough chooses Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell. Ian Mond calls it “a colourful and politically aware love letter to the British Invasion and the last, lingering days of the Summer of Love.”

Read Ian’s full review online or in the August 2020 issue of Locus.

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