Flowers In The Attic Book 2 Summary

Flowers in the attic is a shocking story about a family that slowly falls apart because of the destructive power of greed.

Flowers in the attic book 2 summary.

In goodbye daddy cathy is eight and her brother christopher is ten. One of the most popular authors of all time v c. Cathy s father assures her that this is not possible. Their mother sets them down and tells them they are going to have a baby brother or sister.

Cathy is upset by this afraid a sister will replace her in her father s affections. The book like the others in the series was a number one best seller in north america in the early 1980s. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. Olivia will come once a day to bring them food for the day and the children are to hide in the adjoining attic on the one day of the week the servants come to this section of the house to clean.

It is a novel that had created a lot of noise when it was first published and was forbidden in different countries at different points in time. In 1957 the dollanganger family lives an idyllic life in gladstone pennsylvania until mr. It is the second book in the dollanganger series. Cathy dollanganger lives a charmed life with her father chris her mother corrine her elder brother christopher and her younger twin siblings cory and carrie.

The family is forced to move in with corinne s wealthy parents from whom she is estranged. Flowers in the attic if there be thorns petals on the wind seeds of yesterday garden of shadows dollanganger prequel 4 by v c. In 2014 it was adapted into a lifetime original movie. The timeline takes place from the siblings successful escape in november 1960 to the fall of 1975.

Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. Dollanganger dies in a car accident leaving his wife corinne deep in debt with four children and no professional skills. Andrews 4 19 3952 ratings 162 reviews published 1979 14 editions. Corrine tells them they are in hiding because she is estranged from her aged and ailing father and needs to make amends with him so that he will reinherit her before she tells him of their existence.

Flowers in the attic is a dark gothic tale of greed and incest that will keep readers spellbound until the final paragraph. When chris dies in a traffic accident corrine insists on moving the family from pennsylvania to virginia to live with her splendidly wealthy parents. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in.