Slowers In The Attic

With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams.

Slowers in the attic.

Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary. Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. After the sudden death of their father four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother. 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.

The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation. Secret brother the novel is written in the first person from the point of. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower.

Directed by jeffrey bloom. Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary. With heather graham ellen burstyn kiernan shipka mason dye. Andrews 1979 novel of the same name.

For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother. Directed by deborah chow. Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c.