One of the rare happy endings for a King novel, but the flow of the story called for it. It’s a serious page turner.Īfter thwarting Norman, Rosie and Bill become married, have a daughter and live a happy life. King writes a very intense and heart pounding fight to the finish.
he takes his time, finds out where she is, and strikes. He is a sick and twisted individual, but he is smart… scary smart. Norman is a detective, so he puts his skills to the task of finding Rose. He is very angry that his docile wife left him and stole money from him to do it. These parts are extremely disturbing and unsettling. Whole sections of the novel are written in italics and from Norman’s perspective. That is, until we read Norman’s perspective. Rosie has totally turned her life around and the story is truly uplifting. She moves into her own apartment, turns into a very successful audio book voice and starts dating Bill, the man who ran the antique shop. Another store patron offers her a job as an audio book reader. This painting ends up being a doorway of sorts… I’ll get there in a minute. One day she walks into an antique shop to sell her wedding ring and ends up trading it for a painting that really caught her eye. She finds solace in a battered woman’s home where she makes many new friends and gets a job as a maid at a hotel. Rose leaves the only home she has known since marrying Norman, steals his debit card, and takes a bus as far as it will take her. There are also parts where we get some views of another world and some wacky things and even some Dark Tower nods, which is always fun.īelow is a slightly spoilery synopsis, so beware. King writes entire sections of this novel from the perspective of Norman and oh my god are these creepy. The poor woman was beaten so much and then finally one day she just says, “I’ve had enough.”
Stephen King wrote a surprisingly real novel here, one that definitely hits your feels, and really makes you understand Rosie’s plight.
Released in 1995, this 420-page novel is about Rose Daniels and her efforts to restart her life after running away from her extremely abusive husband, Norman Daniels. Those are the first three words I think of after reading “Rose Madder.”
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