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HOT WAX

An electric, rock and roll fuelled story of one band's rise to stardom and one women's quest for answers
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'A propulsive father-daughter story infused with rock and roll' JENNIFER EGAN '[A] feverishly-composed rock 'n' roll masterpiece' LAYNE FARGO 'The sleaze of the Stooges, the energy of the Ramones and the glamour of the Cramps - Hot Wax is a pure foot-on-the-monitors, amps-up-to-ten rock 'n' roll... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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M. L. Rio's riotous sophomore novel, HOT WAX, follows one woman on a breakneck ride to hell and back to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood.

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'A propulsive father-daughter story infused with rock and roll' JENNIFER EGAN

'[A] feverishly-composed rock 'n' roll masterpiece' LAYNE FARGO

'The sleaze of the Stooges, the energy of the Ramones and the glamour of the Cramps - Hot Wax is a pure foot-on-the-monitors, amps-up-to-ten rock 'n' roll classic' MAT OSMAN

Some songs keep on playing. Some crimes never fade . . .

1989: Suzanne is a wild child, swept up in her father's world of muscle cars and rock and roll. There's nowhere she would rather be than out on the road with his band, on the concert tour that might skyrocket them to stardom. After one night of chaos and bloodshed brings their whole world crashing down, young Suzanne will never be the same.

2018: Suzanne trades the guts and glory of her youth for the calm stability of suburbia, but the marriage that was supposed to be her solid ground now feels more like a cage. When her estranged father's untimely death offers her an escape, Suzanne leaps at the chance - driving back into the past she's spent decades trying to outrun, even as her present threatens to catch up.

Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back - where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035421206

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wildfire

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 400

About the Author

M. L. Rio is the author of international bestseller and BookTok sensation If We Were Villains. She holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe and a PhD in early modern English literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores representations of madness and mood disorder on the early modern stage. She lives in Washington, D. C. with too many books, too many records, and a mutt called Marlowe.

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