Description:
Although it's hard to believe now, Rose West was an exceptionally beautiful little girl with long, glossy dark hair and big brown eyes. Strangers would stop and stare at her in the street and she could entrance people from an early age. Looking at photos of young Rosie as a child, it is almost impossible to comprehend that she would grow up to become one of Britain's most notorious female murderers.
What happened to that little girl to make her capable of such violence? Or was there something wrong - a predisposition to cruelty - which she was born with?
Crime writer Jane Carter Woodrow goes back to the start of Rose's life to piece together what it was that turned her into a monster. In doing so, she presents us with a profile of the young Rose West and a fascinating insight into the mind of a killer.
Rose's early life made her the perfect partner for Fred West when they met just before her sixteenth birthday. But the young teenager would kill for the first time a few months later, alone and unaided, while Fred was in prison. Her part in the killings is very different to that which many people believe even today.
Review:
Having read, FRED&ROSE by Howard Sounes last year I received this book for my birthday this one and got straight into it. Jane Carter Woodrow describes how Rose took a more leading role in the murders than original thought, Charmaine for example was killed just a few weeks after her 16th birthday and while Fred was in prison.
Rose and Fred has similar childhoods, both abused and sexual active at a young age. This book covers all the history of Rose and her upbringing and describes all the murders in good detail but it is not really about them its about Rose and how she became the infamous and worse female serial killer and sex offender of all time.
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