F orty years ago this month flowers in the attic the debut novel of one vc andrews was published. But it is shocking to think otherwise.
A review in the washington post didn t mince its words describing it as deranged swill.
Flowers in the attic book review. Andrews about reviews ratings description buy book. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. Andrews book flowers in the attic to any gen x woman and chances are high that the response will be oh my god i cannot wait.
I wasn t sure who to be angriest with the grandmother mom or children. Petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday and garden of shadows. Flowers in the attic is a painful story full of tragedy for four young children who faithfully and naively trust wholeheartedly in their mother.
Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. From start to finish this book keeps you hooked. Mention the upcoming made for cable adaptation of v c.
Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. In the book however she remarries and rather annoyingly gets away with her part in the children s torment. The book flowers in the attic though is only the first instalment of a much longer story which continues over a further four books.
The review of this book prepared by fran laniado flowers in the attic tells the story of four middle class children who are trying to cope with the death of their father only to learn that they must leave their past behind to live with their rich grandparents in virginia. Flowers in the attic by virginia andrews review. And as if she really lived in the attic because surely the whole book can t be pure imagination.
Flowers in the attic has 5 reviews and 3 ratings. Find all information about the book flowers in the attic petals on the wind of v c. Parents need to know that flowers in the attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it and the older siblings eventually become intimate though only kissing is visible.
I just started reading the book but so far awesome.
