The once popular Patty immediately became a pariah in the community. Patty’s ruse was uncovered when Rose Gold was a teenager. Patty made Rose Gold ill by constantly inducing vomiting, resulting in life-threatening malnutrition. “I don’t know how she does it,” was a frequent refrain.
In turn, Patty was there for others, volunteering at functions, garnering accolades for her generosity. Fundraisers were held for “darling” Rose Gold to defray medical bills because caring for her daughter was Patty’s only job. “Darling Rose Gold” briskly moves with surprising twists as Wrobel delivers assured character studies.įor nearly 18 years, Patty Watts portrayed to the world that her daughter, Rose Gold Watts, suffered from debilitating illnesses that doctors seemed unable to cure, and fed on the sympathy of her friends and neighbors in her midwestern town of Deadwick. The psychological thriller “Darling Rose Gold” works well as an intense look at a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship, a tale of manipulation and how one person’s devastating secrets and lies reverberate through a community and a family. The phenomenon Munchausen syndrome by proxy - in which a parent purposely makes a child ill to gain sympathy and attention - receives a fresh update in Stephanie Wrobel’s excellent debut.
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