Flowers In The Attic Virginia Andrews Book Review

Book one of the dollanganger family series.

Flowers in the attic virginia andrews book review.

A major lifetime movie event the novel that captured the world s imagination and earned v c. The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation. Flowers in the attic author virginia andrews nigel honeybone 08 12 2010 book reviews although she passed away in december 1986 virginia andrews name lives on as one of the world s biggest selling novelists with over seventy million copies of her books and stories in print. This unidentified relative claimed flowers in the attic was loosely based on a faintly similar account.

Flowers in the attic. I went through a flowers in the attic phase years ago lots of people did a guilty guilty pleasure. One in 1987 by the director jeffrey bloom and another in 2014 for the lifetime channel. Nonetheless the official v.

5 0 out of 5 stars little jewels in the attic. Flowers in the attic by virginia andrews review when i read the book i experienced many different emotions. Omg this is one of those stories where you don t want to believe that something like this could ever occur to four innocent children but occur it did and with one humongous impact. As well as being the book that effectively launched v c.

At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. I have always heard so much about flowers in the attic and i never quite understood what the hoopla was all about that is. At times i was laughing conversely at other times i was angered or sad. Until i read the book.

I re read this book having first read it a year or so ago and every plot twist was as page turning as enthralling as captivating as it was the first time i read it. Andrews website claims to have contacted one of andrews relatives. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. The book has much more of an icky cringe factor than jerry or jeremy where the salacious details are part of the entertainment of fifteen minutes of the tackiest loudest and most violent people on tv.

Reviewed in the united states on july 24 2014. Flowers in the attic. Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. For many years there was no evidence to support this claim and the book was passed off as fiction.

Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. Andrews literary career it also had not just one but two film adaptations produced around it.