Product Description

Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realization that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight. She begins to build a new life, but her husband is getting closer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #806692 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 600 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right on the edge.

Review
'Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated!one of King's most engrossing and topical horror stories' -- Publishers Weekly 'A superb suspense novel' -- The Sunday Times 'One of the great storytellers of our time' -- Guardian

The Sunday Times
'A superb suspense novel'

Customer Reviews

A fantastic introductory book for new born King fans!
Wow! This is a great book! If you're really into horror, suspense and you love frighteningly realistic gory bits in a book, then you have got to read this!
The storyline of Rose Madder is really good. It might seem quite simple to outsiders to King's work but once you're only a couple of pages into it, you begin to see him twist our world into something quite different...
Throughout this book there is enough suspense to catch hold of even the hardiest of readers and I guarantee that you WILL NOT be able to put it down! Norman is a really strong character who everyone will love to hate, and who brings most of the suspense into the book with his wicked ways. Any sane female who reads this book will love Rosie as to me, she is the ultimate in girl power! She grows so much as a character and i promise, you will travel along with her, feeling her triumphs, her emotions and generally rooting for her when she has to finally face her past.
The ending of this book some might say seems....well...unfinished? No way. If you've got the imagination, then you'll realise that Stephen King has left us with just enough to think about...
Rose Madder was the first Stephen King book I ever read and since then I have gone on to read about 26 more but it still remains one of, if not my favourite book.
Watch out...Really Rosie is definately a big deal!

frustrating
King has written many good books, but this one is disappointing. it is superbly told, and very compulsive up to about pge 300-ish, where a supernatural element is intorduced to the story which does not work at all and seems far fetched and silly, compared to the rest of the story. if he had only kept this book to a chase-thriller then i would rank among his best, but alas. His imagination has actually got the better of him.

Thrilling and exciting
A must read for all King fans.A step away from the norm, but a gripping tale of struggle against the odds and with King's style of a twist some-where in between. Rosie Daniels,fleeing from her violent,sick husband after 14years of hell and a miscarrage to boot,ends up having to face her fears when she has gone for refuge at a womans hostel,meets the man of her dreams and finds a new start,only to have to fight her past and her ex.A brilliant read