Book description
'Infamous, I have become disowned, but I am one of your own' - Myra
Hindley, from her unpublished autobiography
On 15 November 2002, Myra Hindley, Britain's most notorious
murderess, died in prison, one of the rare women whose crimes were
deemed so indefensible that 'life' really did mean 'life'.
But who was the woman behind the headlines? How could a seemingly
normal girl grow up to commit such terrible acts? Her defenders claim
she fell under Ian Brady's spell, but is this the truth? Was her
insistence that she had changed, that she felt deep remorse and had
reverted to the Catholicism of her childhood genuine or a calculating
bid to win parole?
One of Your Own explores these questions and many others,
drawing on a wide range of resources, including Hindley's own unseen
writings, hundreds of recently released prison files, fresh interviews
and extensive new research. Compellingly well written, this is the
first in-depth study of Hindley and the challenging, definitive
biography of Britain's 'most-hated woman'.
Carol Ann Lee is an acclaimed biographer and has written extensively
on the Holocaust. She is co-author of the forthcoming
Witness: The
Autobiography of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors
Murders Case
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