Virginia Flowers In The Attic

Her best known novel is the bestseller flowers in the attic 1979 a tale of four children smuggled into the attic of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother and held prisoner there by their mother.

Virginia flowers in the attic.

From wikipedia the free encyclopedia flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v. The haunting young adult gothic romance classic that launched virginia andrews incredible best selling career. Flowers is a film based on the cult novel by vc andrews. After their father dies the teenage siblings along with their younger brother and sister are sent to live with their cruel grandmother olivia louise fletcher.

Flowers in the attic if there be thorns petals on the wind seeds of yesterday garden of shadows dollanganger prequel 4 by v c. Andrews 4 19 3952 ratings 162 reviews published 1979 14 editions. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. Four blonde beautiful innocent little secrets struggling to stay alive.

Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. There are secrets chris jeb stuart adams and cathy kristy swanson never knew about their parents. Andrews is the best selling author of a series of gothic horror family sagas that include flowers in the atticseries the heavenseries the dawnseries and the rubyseries. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me.

Flowers in the attic 1979 which she wrote an early draft of in 1975 became a bestseller although the washington post declared the book deranged swill and andrews possibly the worst writer i have ever read. Chris cathy cory and carrie have perfect lives until a tragic accident changes everything. A review in the washington post didn t mince its words describing it as deranged swill that.