Author: V. C. Andrews
Started: 1979
Genre: Realistic Fiction/Family Drama
Order of Books: Flowers in the Attic
Petals in the Wind
If There Be Thorns
Seeds of Yesterday
Garden of Shadows
Summary of first book: It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake--a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.
So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.
Just for a little while.
But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work--children who--one by one--must be destroyed....
Her work is good for: those looking for dark fiction, if you like messed up family sagas
Note: this author has written several other quartets about other messed up family situations over the years, but this remains her most well known.
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