California Gold
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Jodie Chapman
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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 . . .
© Jodie Chapman 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critic reviews
Exploring forty years of the O’Hara family left me glued me to the page. Stylish, vibrant, romantic – and written in beautiful prose - 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
Both a wide-screen romance and a dream that turns into obsession. Here is an epic portrait of a complicated family, ambitious and compelling
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