Flowers In The Attic Book 2 Summary

When chris dies in a traffic accident corrine insists on moving the family from pennsylvania to virginia to live with her splendidly wealthy parents.

Flowers in the attic book 2 summary.

Cathy is upset by this afraid a sister will replace her in her father s affections. Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary. The book like the others in the series was a number one best seller in north america in the early 1980s. Their mother sets them down and tells them they are going to have a baby brother or sister.

For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. In goodbye daddy cathy is eight and her brother christopher is ten. Flowers in the attic is a shocking story about a family that slowly falls apart because of the destructive power of greed. 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.

One of the most popular authors of all time v c. 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. It is the second book in the dollanganger series. The timeline takes place from the siblings successful escape in november 1960 to the fall of 1975.

Cathy s father assures her that this is not possible. Dollanganger dies in a car accident leaving his wife corinne deep in debt with four children and no professional skills. The family is forced to move in with corinne s wealthy parents from whom she is estranged. In 2014 it was adapted into a lifetime original movie.

Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of flowers in the attic first in the renowned dollanganger family series which includes petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday and garden of shadows the family saga continues with christopher s diary. 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. Andrews 4 19 3952 ratings 162 reviews published 1979 14 editions.

Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. 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. Flowers in the attic if there be thorns petals on the wind seeds of yesterday garden of shadows dollanganger prequel 4 by v c.