title: The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
author:  Caroline Roberts 
description: 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.<br /><br />Stephen Richards, also known as The Golden Pen, is an international bestselling author of over 60 titles and his many successful self-help books have been translated into foreign languages. As a qualified clinical hypnotherapist and stress counsellor, Stephen was a former member of the British Association of Counsellors and was affiliated to their Family Sexual Division, Disaster Team and Stress Counselling for Students Division. Stephen now applies his time to self-help publications, running his property development empire and helping others.
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  For Kelly-Leigh Proellocks, who suggested the name “Nathaniel”
  
  For Elizabeth Butler, who gave me “Stokes”
  
  And for Christina, who came up with “Westfall”
  
  Congratulations, ladies—you made a hero!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos201)
  
  [Copyright Notice](index_split_001.html#filepos291)
  
  [Dedication](index_split_002.html#filepos822)
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_004.html#filepos3596)
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_005.html#filepos27909)
  
  [Chapter 3](index_split_006.html#filepos56146)
  
  [Chapter 4](index_split_007.html#filepos93704)
  
  [Chapter 5](i