The book begins with a three-page Editor’s Preface in which the two editors (referenced as TG and PG) detail the reasons for putting together the book, how the source material (i. One needs only to see the brother and sister's faces to know this was their experience inside that house.

A story from the two middle children of Fred and Rosemary West, the couple arrested for a series of murders including that of their eldest daughter. I have long been interested in the case of Fred and Rose West, and this book, written by two of their older children, is the most comprehensive look at what life was like at 25 Cromwell Street that I have found. But the kids were expected to pull their own weight around the farm at Much Marcle in Herefordshire where they lived.The book then concludes with a second Appendix publishing many of the letters that Fred and Rosemary West sent Stephen and Mae from prison (which makes for some surreal reading to say the least).

Not like Maes subsequent book where yes she obviously made another but on her terms in a better mind state some years after. Their unpredictable world of brutality, sexual abuse and violence finally came apart with the most shattering series of discoveries any child could be asked to face.But their relationship together struggled, with Fred never really taking the marriage seriously despite Rena’s best efforts. Yes, it is very graphic, but to hold back on that information would be to ignore what drove the two parents to kill again and again. I feel its an engrossing and honest book and the loving letters from Rose to Mae sent a shiver down my spine she sounds like any loving mother expect she is imprisoned for Ten Murders. The psychotic episodes that often gripped Fred and Rose West were not just symptomatic of their own dysfunctional childhoods (Fred was a paedophile who got his own sister pregnant and Rose was sleeping with her father from her teens upwards) but symptomatic of their own broken minds.

However it wasn’t until West met with a young fifteen-year-old girl named Rose Letts that he finally settled down with someone he would say he truly loved. Tbh what I can't understand is HOW Mae still visits Rose and how mae +stephen have written this story sympathising with Rose +fred also. Delivered in a chronological week-by-week account of the court case, the section once again provides a particularly interesting perspective on the highly-publicised trial; delivered again from the point-of-view of both Stephen and Mae West.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Heathers story i found particularly upsetting- she tried 2 get away but so young +such bad luck having evil as parents. Fred had told Mae that it was his father who had taught him that it was a father’s duty to ‘break in’ his daughters. No one else is going to be able to tell this story, as the authors grew up with Fred and Rose and witnessed many strange things.