V. C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) (1979)
English language
Published July 25, 1979
Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. 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: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger and Christopher's Diary: Secret Brother. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. It was twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014. The book was extremely popular, selling over forty million copies world-wide.
I started reading this in the spring. Terrible prose, clumsy dialogue, and a terrible suspension of disbelief mostly because the villains were paper doll characters. Sad story, but worse because a premise like this is a gold mine, and it's sad that only pyrite was exploited, and fools came for the pyrite anyhow.
