I Love You, Mum: My Parents Were the Killers Fred and Rosemary 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 molestation, violence, and murders took place. What do you do, and how do you live, when your mother and father are serial killers, famous across the whole country? Mae West has known this since childhood. Her parents raped, murdered, and then dismembered young women in their house at 25 Cromwell Street, London. The sadistic tendencies of the West spouses weren’t limited to outsiders as victims: their own children were also subjected to abuse and violence. And then the worst happened: their older daughter Heather disappeared. And it turned out that her mother and father killed her… Based on her own memories and her mother’s prison letters, Mae West tells her story of growing up in a “house of horrors.” What is it like when your childhood bedroom in the basement is a real cemetery? How do you accept the fact that your parents cruelly kill people? That your mother is a monster, and your father sexually harasses you? And why, unlike your beloved older sister, are you the one who got away? The incredible and tragic story of Mae West is a story of survival and a life-long struggle with trauma.