Product Description

When Caroline Roberts accepted a job at 25 Cromwell Street, the infamous address of Fred and Rose West, she was only 16. Realising that there was something very malevolent about the couple, she left their employment soon after, glad to be rid of them. The story should have ended there. A month later she was abducted by the Wests and suffered violent sexual abuse at their hands before being told that she would be killed and buried. Through a combination of luck and quick thinking, depite the trauma of what had happened, Caroline managed to escape to freedom. This is her story of those fateful days and the appalling aftermath...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58886 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 278 pages

About the Author
Caroline Roberts was born in Gloucester in 1955, and raised in the Forest of Dean where she still lives with her husband and four children. She is a Reiki healer and works as a Project Worker for a for Substance Misuse Service. She started writing as therapy... it worked for her.

Customer Reviews

Survival Out Of A Nightmare
I purchased this book after seeing Caroline being interviewed on the "This Morning" programme with Fern and Philip. The book starts with introduction to her childhood and the suffering she endured when her parents spilt up, her father rejected her, her stepfather rejected her as well as her stepbrothers who constantly bullied and verbally abused her. During her childhood she was sexually abused twice (by strangers) and by the time she was a teenager she sent herself on a destructive path; sleeping around and taking drugs. The book then goes on to describe the events leading up to the terrible night she first laid eyes on Fred and Rose West, how they abducted, tortured and both abused her in very strong sordid details which really shocked the hell out of me!! She is the one who got away and lived to tell the tale. A true story of extreme courage, bravery and survival. Caroline is an inspiration to us all! I read her book within two days as you just can't put it down and i recommend it to anyone looking for a light at the end of the tunnel. Be warned that the content is very graphic and may shock and upset.

I read this book in one day!
I hesitated about buying this book for ages, if you are doing the same, then dont!
This book was brilliant and was a very personal and moving account of not only this woman's harrowing experiences of life with Fred and Rose West but also her life in general.

This book is very well written and held my interest to the point that i stayed up until 5am to finish reading it! When Caroline described what it was like giving evidence in court during the trial of 'The Wests', i was moved to tears by her personal account of events and the guilt that she felt when she discovered that Fred and Rose West had killed their own child, to whom Caroline had looked after and helped care for!
It was one of those books that made me go back downstairs and double check i had locked the front door!!
Emotional, quite scary and totally gripping!

When terror strikes....
God forbid that anyone should go through this ordeal,but having done so,having the strength to admit your wrongs and fears, is to be commended.I am an avid book reader,and this is one of the best i have read in a long while