Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.
Original flowers in the attic book.
Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary.
Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in.
Secret brother the novel is written in the first person from the point of.
Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower.
Directed by jeffrey bloom.
Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams.
Flowers in the attic and petals on the wind are in the first set two novels together 868 pages total for the first book set.
For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me.
The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation.
Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary.
Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale.
Andrews it is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary.
Petals on the wind and if there be thorns are in the second set 788 pages with a preview of garden of shadows at the end which is actually the prequel to flowers in the attic.
Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c.