The Lost Girl - Caroline Roberts

I was looking through the books in my local Tesco, and I came across a hard-back book called “The Lost Girl”, on the front cover is a picture of the author, Caroline Roberts, and a short passage saying “How I triumphed over life at the mercy of Fred and Rose West”. I love true stories, and have read all of Dave Pelzer books, so I thought at £9.77, I might as well buy it. The book is 278 pages long and it starts with an introduction to her childhood, and the suffering she endured when her parents spilt up, her father rejected her and went back to live in Ireland, her ... more

This is the story of a woman who used to be a nanny for Fred and Rose West. She was unaware of their behaviour even when she was living with them, but as soon as something went wrong, she ran a mile. Caroline didn't have a normal life. She was born to a woman who wasn't married and her father didn't want to know after a few years as he was a devout Catholic. Soon her mother remarried to a man named Alf who she argued with and did a typical "step daughter" behaviour. She goes onto say how at the age of 12 she was sexually aussaulted by an old man. When telling her mother and police about this ... more