It's a weird, strangely old-fashioned love story (and is Chris ever the stuff of teenage dreams: handsome, brilliant, extravagantly chivalrous), but it's not what hooked me. Basically, I adored her because she is like all girls around the age of 13: at turns sulky, giving, selfish, charming, nasty and heroic.įlowers in the Attic is most famous for the fact that Cathy and her brother fall in love.
The narrator, Cathy, who ages from 12 to 15 over the course of the story, is part princess (she is locked in a tower she is beset by cruel foes she has long, perfect hair until the grandmother tars it one night), and part witch (she's tantrum-prone, pessimistic, cynical). My much loved copy must have come from a supermarket (it was impossible to go to a supermarket in the '80s to, say, secretly stock up on green apple Jolly Ranchers, without a V.C.
"At age 13, I survived almost entirely on green apple Jolly Ranchers and Flowers in the Attic, and to this day I can't look at the book without my mouth watering. Then experience the attic from Christopher’s point of view in Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth and Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and twins Cory and Carrie, realize their survival is at the mercy of their cruel and superstitious grandmother.and this cramped and helpless world may be the only one they ever know.īook One of the Dollanganger series, the sequels include Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother’s vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They were a perfect family, golden and carefree-until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Blond, beautiful, innocent, and struggling to stay alive. Book One of the Dollanganger family saga.Īt the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. Now a major Lifetime movie event-the classic story of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
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