For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold.
Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.
After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes.
Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she's forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score.
Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling...
And she's waited such a long time for her mother to come home.
Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.
After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes.
Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she's forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score.
Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling...
And she's waited such a long time for her mother to come home.
Stephanie Wrobel grew up in Chicago but has been living in the UK for the last three years with her husband and dog, Moose Barkwinkle. She has an MFA from Emerson College and has had short fiction published in Bellevue Literary Review. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a creative copywriter at various advertising agencies.
Darling Rose Gold (US & Canada)/The Recovery of Rose Gold (UK) is her first novel, coming March 17, 2020.
My Review
Imagine thinking that you are ill when in reality, your mother was poisoning you. Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel is a Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy story of Rose Gold, told in alternating chapters, Rose Gold and her mother Patty Watts, in this the reader learns what happened to Rose Gold in her childhood but also after her mother was arrested and jailed for 5 years. Most people know about Munchausen by Proxy and how it messes up a life.
Rose Gold's life after her childhood is not a very good one either, she purchases her mother's childhood home so she can take in her mother when she gets out of prison. Patty is not real pleased but she dearly wants to be a family with her daughter and her little boy, Adam, yes Rose Gold has a baby.
This story is twisted for sure, the treatment of Rose Gold and how life is after Patty gets out of prison and the living arrangement that is creepy at best. If you are interested in this type of story, pick this one up, I really loved the story, it reads fast and the cover is brilliant!
I received a copy of the book for review purposes.
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