![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Madeleine Milburn, Madeleine Milburn Literary (U.K.). Psychological suspense fans will be well satisfied. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. Propulsive pacing, a claustrophobic setting, and vividly sketched characters who are equal parts victim and villain conspire to create an anxious, unsettling narrative. Darling Rose Gold Stephanie Wrobel, 2019 Penguin Publishing 320 pp. ![]() Rose Gold’s past-tense narration, which chronicles her rocky path to independence, alternates with present-tense chapters from Patty’s point of view documenting her postincarceration transformation from predator to prey. Patty is determined to win back the neighbors and regain control of her daughter’s life unbeknownst to Patty, however, Rose Gold has plans of her own. Rose Gold’s testimony not only helped convict Patty, but pitted all of the dying town of Deadwick against her, so it’s a shock when Patty finishes her sentence and moves in with Rose Gold-now a 23-year-old single mother to two-month-old Adam. ![]() It wasn’t until Patty’s daughter, Rose Gold, turned 16 and gained internet access that she realized her mother had been poisoning her since infancy Rose Gold’s undiagnosable illness was actually ipecac-induced vomiting resulting in crippling malnutrition. The release of 58-year-old Patty Watts from an Illinois prison kick-starts Wrobel’s diabolically plotted debut. ![]()
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