Rose West: The Making of a Monster
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4.4 • 104 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
Hard to believe it looking at her now, but Rose West was an exceptionally beautiful little girl, with a Maltese mother and English father. Strangers would stop and stare at her in the street and she could entrance people from a very early age. But looking back at photos of Rose as a child, you struggle to accept that she grew up to one of the country's most notorious female criminals.
In ROSE, Jane Carter Woodrow goes right back to the start in her life to try and piece together what happened to turn Rose West into the violent monster she became. Jane has gained unprecedented access to the family and has revealed a fascinating story of how there was always something 'not quite right' about Rose...
And perhaps that's not too surprising... Rose's childhood reads like one of the most grim misery memoirs. Her father was a violent schizophrenic and her mother received electric shock therapy for severe clinical depression, the whole way through her pregnancy with Rose. Jane has uncovered a horrific hidden story of a twisted family and how her upbringing made her a perfect partner for Fred West when they met when Rose had just turned 16. She was to kill for the first time a few months later.
This is a gripping, unputdownable read that sheds light for the first time on the story behind what turned Rose West into one of the country's most vicious and deadly serial killers.
Customer Reviews
Rose west
Chilling and stomach churning. She was one sick person but I cudnt put it down! Heart so goes out to the west kids
A visual account of a true atrocity
From picking up this book to read on holiday, I have been hooked and faced with the real-life horror of what took place at Cromwell Street. Few words can describe the anger and pity this book stirs up in grasping only a scraping of what took place at this true house of horrors.
Well written, and objectively put across, one sees through the eyes of a victim and a person tortured in their early life...the stages and cycles of abuse are evident here and are unavoidable to understand.
Very much worth a read; however graphic it is.
Sickening
What a sick cookie. She was one evil piece of work. Brilliantly written. Do not read if you have a weak stomach could not believe what happened to Anne Marie in the cellar. It literally made me sick! However could not put it down.