The real story of the daughter of the famous British maniacs Fred and Rosemary West is about life in a "house of horrors" where molestation, violence and murder took place.

What to do and how to live when your mom and dad are serial murderers famous all over the country? Mae West has known this since childhood. Her parents raped, killed and then dismembered young women in their home at 25 Cromwell Street, London. The West's sadistic inclinations were not limited to outside victims: their own children were subjected to abuse and violence. And then the worst happened: the eldest daughter Heather disappeared. And it turned out that her mom and dad killed her ...

Based on her own memories and prison letters to her mother, Mae West tells her story of growing up in the "House of Horrors". What is it like when your children's bedroom in the basement is a real cemetery? How to accept the fact that your parents brutally kill people? That your mom is a monster and your dad is sexually harassing you? And why exactly were you, unlike your beloved older sister, lucky to be saved? Mae West's incredible and tragic story is a lifelong story of survival and dealing with trauma.

“Reading a book, you just want to break into this basement, hug this girl and tell her that from now on everything will be fine . On every page there is a desire to save children from that terrible nightmare in which they lived every single day. A terrible but emotional story of absolute suffering…” –

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