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1 Flowers in the Attic ..
2 Petals... ..
3 ...Thorns ..
4 Seeds... ..
5 Garden of Shadows
Such Wonderful Children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! 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.
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...
Blond, beautiful, innocent little secrets - struggling to stay alive...."
Setting: Virginia, 1950s
© 1979 by Virginia Andrews. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 1987 (blue) Cover Art © New World Pictures and Fries Entertainment. 411 pages.
Background -- Malcolm or Olivia Do you have an opinion about who's in the picture? Write to me.
"It's the Grandmother [in the background]. Recall Cathy said she was so tall, not very attractive, and very cruel looking/acting (same thing in GoS). Besides, she's the one that mostly dealt with them so it seems only right that the Grandmother would be in the artwork."
"I agree with tigger. It has to be the grandmother in the background. The grandfather was a minor character. He wasn't as important to the books as the grandmother was."
"The person above is the Grandfather. Remember that the Grandmother knew they were there and supposedly the children had to stay locked up until the Grandfather died, so it was sort of like the Grandfather was looming over them."
"I think it's the grandfather in the background. He may have been a minor character, but he was what determined their fate. They were kept away so he wouldn't know about them. They waited for his death to come. Essentially his presence loomed over them, as depicted in the picture."
"I think it is the grandfather in the background because he is the one making them go through all this pain."
"I believe that it was the grandmother in the story. She was the one who thought that they were the 'Devil's Issue.' I believe that she would be the one to haunt them for the rest of their life."
"It's got to be the grandpa. See how his hands are enclosed around all four of them? He was the one that really held them captive, no matter how minor a role he may have played in the book, he was still the crux of it."
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Flowers in the Attic
Just for a little while.
