Reading can be such a relief in such strenuous times. As presidential candidates battle it out for delegates and many of us are self-isolating in the face of the Coronavirus, knowing that books are still there for us to escape into whenever and wherever we are can help us…
Lee Child said the mother-daughter main characters of her debut novel, The Recovery of Rose Gold, ‘power the story like a nuclear reaction’; meet the London-based American writer behind the explosion.
It’s safe to say these are unprecedented times. With the rapid spread of the new coronavirus around the world, a whole lot of us (yours truly included!) are finding ourselves with a whole lot more solitary time on our hands as we stay home and self-isolate.
I had the pleasure of reading Stephanie Wrobel’s stunning debut novel DARLING ROSE GOLD this past fall, and boy oh boy did I love it. Today marks the US publication day for this exceptional new suspense read, and to celebrate, I’m so excited to give CBTB readers…
No one is telling the truth, both daughter and mother have serious agendas, and you have a book that wonders just how far a daughter should go to please her mother–especially when her mother is obviously unhinged.
Stephanie Wrobel’s debut novel, Darling Rose Gold, is a mystifying read from the start: Rose Gold decides to take in her mother, Patty, after she’s been released from prison—for abusing Rose Gold. Her novel tells a gripping tale about the chilling psychology behind induced illness by carers.
Rose Gold Watts spent the first 18 years of her life constantly sick, in and out of hospitals. No one could ever figure out what was really wrong — turns out her mother Patty was an expert liar.
In Darling Rose Gold, Patty Gold is getting out of prison after serving a five-year stretch for child abuse. Given that it was her own daughter, Rose, she abused, readers may be surprised to read that it is Rose who waits for her outside the prison.
Told in alternating chapters by Rose Gold and Patty, this is a dark, nerve-jangling read that kept us on the edge of our seats till the very end.
Want to know the antidote to get you through your tumultuous week’s duties and the dreaded pandemonium of the Monday morning commute? It’s whiling away with a fresh book to devour. And fittingly, here at MV, we have just the one.
With genuine menace seeping from every twist and turn, the two central characters inhabit every page with captivating ferocity, and the denouement is worthy of Patricia Highsmith at her finest: quite superb.
My inspiration for The Recovery of Rose Gold came from my best friend. She’s an elementary school psychologist in Colorado and has experience with Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP)…
A thorough and delectable novel about class, interfamilial relationships, and the limits of forgiveness, you’ll quickly turn the pages trying to figure out just what every characters’ motives are.
The mother-daughter relationship at the center of Stephanie Wrobel’s Darling Rose Gold is the stuff of nightmares. Rose Gold Watts spent the first 18 years of her life believing she suffered from a host of medical issues.
Five years ago, 18-year-old Rose Gold Watts testified in a trial that ended with her mother being sent to prison for child abuse. In the years that followed, Rose Gold’s community poured out their support for her, watching as she bought her grandparents’ old house…
This is a super twisted delectable read which is likely be among my favorite books of the year, one of those things I recommend with the preface, “What pushes your buttons around mother-daughter relationships?” (Reader, you should ask yourself that question too.)
In a premise which screams Netflix crime drama or must-listen podcast, Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for 18 years, before she discovered her mother was lying.
These first lines of Stephanie Wrobel’s Darling Rose Gold (Berkley) are spoken by Patty Watts, 58, who’s just gotten out of prison after serving five years. For eighteen years, her daughter, Rose Gold, had gotten sicker and sicker.
This month, next month—and probably long into the future—if you pay any attention at all to the Chicago literary landscape, you’re going to need to acquaint yourself with a handful of fresh names. No fewer than five debut novels by Chicago authors arrive on shelves this winter…
This month, next month—and probably long into the future—if you pay any attention at all to the Chicago literary landscape, you’re going to need to acquaint yourself with a handful of fresh names. No fewer than five debut novels by Chicago authors arrive on shelves this winter…