Love as Always, Mum xxx: The true and terrible story of surviving a childhood with Fred and Rose West

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I actually had no recollection of the crimes talked about in these books although I knew the names . Though the writing was good, the editing was absolutely terrible, and it made it hard to understand in places. It took the author many years to find herself, believe in herself and be happy in her own body, and the book follows that whole story of just one human being and told so well.

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To have people have a reaction to you and feel compelled to tell you their own woes based on the fact that they know some of yours. Well I didn't expect this book to be an easy read but goodness what those poor children went through. Reading about the shockingly bad everyday treatment of the children was bad enough, but what I found as harrowing was Mae's struggle with trying to keep up a relationship with her mother post conviction. I do feel like it came off as a way to make Rose look better than she is and maybe that wasn't how it was intended but that's how I took it. One of these is the infamous case of Fred and Rose West, a couple who abused and killed their acquaintances and their own daughter.Mae also puts to bed the lie that the West children knew no better than the way they were bought up. Anybody who knows me well knows that I can never resist watching the latest true crime documentary on TV or resist the temptation of scouring over a true crime article. I had to acknowledge the loss, but it allowed me to deal with the reality of my mother, rather than the fantasy version. A great book if you're a true crime fan who likes when emphasis is placed on the victims, because although we do learn more about her parents, Mae is the real focus here, as is her poor sister Heather, who lost her life at the hands of the Wests.

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Then I realised she was a person just like me, with faults and failings and issues she struggled with. Even as children, as children generally are, they were aware where the differences between their homelife and those of those of their peers.With all this being said there is no actual hard evidence that Rose was involved but Mae sees her mother differently now. That way you are not eyeballing one another, you are side by side and your bodies are in rhythm, you can have silences, you can be upset. Not only suffer but die as some of the children did, at the hands of the two sick individuals, and worse sleep above where their were buried.

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The detail of the story and the very often honesty is what touches me, and you can understand why it took Mae West over 20 years to clear her head mentally to be able to tell this story. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. The extracts from Rose’s letters add another psychological study which is impossible to solve although Mae gives her views on what the letters sending her love from inside prison to the life her daughter was building with such a terrible shadow hanging over her. she gave me life, nurtured me, taught me, dressed me, fought for me, held me, shouted at me, kissed me, but most importantly she loved me unconditionally. I didn’t really learn anything new about the Fred and west case and this book was more about mae coming to terms with her experiences and ‘moving on’, as much as you can do from that sort of background.

Not only did I audibly gasp at this book, but I found myself having to put it down at times before continuing long-reading sessions.