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California Gold
  • Published: 19 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405962339
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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California Gold

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19 Mar 2026
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For readers of Curtis Sittenfeld and Ann Patchett, a multi-generational literary saga with book club appeal set against the backdrop of a 1970's Californian dream

Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into ’70. Frank has been travelling around California when someone tells him about a house in the desert where the walls are steel and the glass shimmers. When Chrissy picks him up hitchhiking on the side of the road, all blond hair and oversized sunglasses, it’s love at first sight.

Years later, as their shared dream of recreating a mid-century masterpiece in Britain threatens to overwhelm them, Frank will often think back to the start. What if he had carried on walking? What if she had driven to Palm Springs the next day? Every moment of tomorrow would have changed . . .
  • Published: 19 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405962339
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Jodie Chapman

Jodie Chapman spent twelve years working as a photographer before returning to her first love of writing. She lives in Kent with her husband and three sons. Another Life, her debut novel, was a BBC2 Between the Covers pick while her second novel, Oh, Sister was published to critical acclaim. California Gold is her third work of fiction. www.jodiechapman.co.uk @jodiechapman [Twitter icon] @jodiechapman [Instagram icon]
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Praise for California Gold

Both a wide-screen romance and a dream that turns into obsession. An epic portrait of a complicated family, ambitious and compelling

JULIE OWEN MOYLAN

Stylish, vibrant, romantic and beautifully written, the characters' various realisations that the only thing any of us have is the moment we are living in will stay with me for a very long time

KATE SAWYER

Exquisite, evocative and cinematic

YOMI ADEGOKE

If you love Taylor Jenkins Reid you will adore this. The scope of California Gold is breathtaking - English snobbery, the American dream and a dance through the second half of the twentieth century with a jukebox soundtrack. Extraordinary

RACHAEL WOLF

Exceptional. Britain's response to Ann Pachett

Lidija Hilje

So good, so sharp. A movie-scene beginning and a shattering of love’s young dream

RUTH CRILLY

Gorgeous and heartfelt. California Gold shows how both love and tragedy can echo through generations

KATIE BISHOP