Love You, Mum: My Parents Were Killers Fred and Rose West

A real story of the daughter of famous British serial killers Fred and Rosemary West—about life in a “house of horrors,” where child sexual abuse, violence, and murders took place. What do you do and how do you live when your mother and father are serial killers, notorious across the whole country? May West has known this since childhood. Her parents raped and murdered young women, then dismembered them in their home at 25 Cromwell Street, London. The West couple’s sadistic impulses were not limited to outside victims: their own children were subjected to abuse and violence. And then the worst happened: their eldest daughter, Heather, disappeared. It turned out that her mother and father had killed her… Based on her own memories and her mother’s prison letters, May West recounts her story of growing up in the “house of horrors.” What is it like when your childhood bedroom in the basement becomes a real graveyard? How do you accept the fact that your parents brutally kill people? That your mother is a monster, and your father sexually harasses you? And why were you—unlike your beloved older sister—given a chance to survive? May West’s incredible and tragic story is a tale of survival and a lifelong battle with trauma. —