The Wonderkids' lead singer, songwriter, and resident mad genius Blake Lear has always written lyrics as silly as they are infectious. Rock n' roll has always been for the kids, right? This is why Blake has no objection when the band is offered a deal with the devil: the band will be rock stars, adored and revered. The catch? Their audience will be children. The band takes America by storm, and things go very right...until they go very wrong.
"Wesley Stace has written one of the very few novels about rock bands and the music business that doesn't have a single false note or outsider-wannabe pretensions. It's a relief - and a joy - to read about the weird particularities of the lives of musicians by someone who knows the world so intimately. He deconstructs, with an elegant and sharp eye, the heightened sense of the unreality of fame, t
Rosanne Cash, author of Composed
"Highly pleasurable. And unusual, not least because this is a rock 'n' roll novel written by someone who actually knows what he's talking about."
Peter Carey, author of The Chemistry of Tears
"Rock 'n' roll is an infantile business, but never more so than in the hands of the Wonderkids, a group of post-teens, playing music for pre-teens, whilst living chaotic adult lives. In Wonderkid, Wesley Stace absolutely captures the band experience: the triumphs, the letdowns, the sell-outs, the success, and the scandal, with an extra helping of absurdity. There were times reading this book that
