Flowers In The Attic Covers

With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams.

Flowers in the attic covers.

Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. When i was 12 everybody was sneaking this novel under the covers or behind their math books. Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v. As for flowers in the attic the appeal was quite simply that it mirrored the restrictive feeling of what it was like to be young.

Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation. Well you could make a very good argument that flowers in the attic did the same thing for a generation of pre teen girls. Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary.

Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother. Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary. I remember a girl actually got in trouble for bringing it to free reading period in english class. Flowers in the attic reprint is terrifying for all the wrong reasons photo the latest edition of flowers in the attic came out a few years ago published by pocket books.

Secret brother the novel is written in the first person from the point of. 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. Andrews who died in 1986.