Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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Is it real, or is it Münchausen syndrome by proxy? That is the question at the heart of The Recovery Of Rose Gold. Did Patty Watts really subject her daughter to eighteen years of misery, or was she really ill?
At the opening of the book, Poisonous Patty as she was nicknamed by the media is released from a five-year sentence, only to be picked up by Rose herself, now perfectly fit and well. Physically, that is. But mentally? Would she really be so kind to a monster who abused her for years? Yes, if she takes her home to the house where Patty suffered misery herself as a child. But that’s just the beginning of Patty’s punishment.
Perfectly innocently Rose invites mum to stay. Best not. But as Rose now has a child of her own, Patty can’t resist the thought of getting hold of the baby boy for her own ends.
This is a shuddery debut, that almost makes you guiltily check to make sure no one is watching you turn the pages.
Poisonous Patty and Rose Gold are about as unpleasant a pair of characters as you could unhappily meet in real life, but are terrific company in the text. And may they both stew in their own juices forever, amen.
