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California Gold
  • Published: 19 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405952101
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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California Gold

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19 Mar 2026
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19 Mar 2026
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19 Apr 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: 9781405952101
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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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 BBC Two Between the Covers pick.

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Praise for California Gold

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

JULIE OWEN MOYLAN

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

KATE SAWYER

CALIFORNIA GOLD is a sweeping, sumptuously told tale that will entirely transport you. Compelling, evocative and cinematic - it was an utter joy to spend time with the O'Haras and devour Chapman's storytelling at its most exquisite

YOMI ADEGOKE

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

RACHAEL BLOK
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