Book 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.
Jane Carter Woodrow has a PhD in Criminology from Cambridge and has
worked as a scriptwriter on several high-profile television dramas,
including
In Suspicious Circumstances
and
The Bill
.
