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    Flowers in the Attic: A Stage Play

    By V.C. Andrews

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    The only official stage play of V.C. Andrews’s enduring classic of forbidden love—adapted by Andrew Neiderman (The Devil’s Advocate). Experience in this new format the original story that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted readership.

    At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent, and struggling to stay alive...

    They were a perfect family, golden and carefree—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmotherds vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and twins Cory and Carrie, realize their survival is at the mercy of their cruel and superstitious grandmother...and this cramped and helpless world may be the only one they ever know.

    Book One of the Dollanganger series, the sequels include Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Then experience the attic from Christopher’s point of view in Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth and Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Star
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781501103957
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    Flowers in the Attic: A Stage Play
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    V.C. Andrews

    One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. 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: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Secret Brother, as well as Beneath the Attic, Out of the Attic, and Shadows of Foxworth as part of the fortieth anniversary celebration. There are more than ninety V.C. Andrews novels, which have sold over 107 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five foreign languages. Andrews’s life story is told in The Woman Beyond the Attic. Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews.

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    • 3/5
      Good book, one of my favorite authors
    • 3/5
      this book, with the incest/rape, the melodrama, the terrible writing, and the ridiculous plot is essentially a soap opera and yet i have the perverse desire to continue the series, which i guess is the entire point of a soap opera.
    • 3/5
      I always thought of it as lighthearted trash, but it was actually a lot better than I remembered it to be. I actually cried at some parts. I can't imagine anyone not knowing the plot, but here goes: Chris, Cathy, Carrie, and Cory are four adorable little children with loving parents when their father is killed in a car accident. Their pretty, helpless mother, Corrine, decides to take them back to their ancestral home, Foxworth Hall, where she can beg forgiveness of her father, who disowned her when she eloped with her half-uncle fifteen years earlier (and later, in the prequel "Garden of Shadows", we find out that he wasn't her half-uncle, but actually her half-brother, but they never knew that). Until she has won back her father's love, she and her mother hide the children in a little room at one end of the great house, and let them have the run of the attic. Corrine tells them it will only be for a few days, until she can bring them down to meet their grandfather. Those few days stretch into three and half years, until Chris and Cathy finally take matters into their own hands and escape. A lot of stuff is going on in this book, and I really enjoyed rereading it. It was one that Andrews herself actually wrote, before she died and a ghostwriter took over her name and started churning out lesser quality stuff. Not like this is great literature or anything, but it's fun.
    • 4/5
      Interesting. Scary. Weird. I'm not sure how I felt about the book in the end, though it was well written.
    • 1/5
      I remember reading this book as a pre-teen, and I remember thinking that it was disappointing.

      But I also remember that it was very popular, and I thought perhaps something wax over my head.

      No... no, I understood it all too well. The writing is horrible.
    • 5/5
      Good, trashy fun.
    • 5/5
      Listened to the Audible version and loved it! Its been a few years since I read it last and it was just as good as I remember!
    • 2/5
      This was the first of this series that I read and I found it very depressing and disturbing. I actually read another one. I guess I was hoping that they would improve. Wrong!
    • 5/5
      I first read this book as a book on cassette when I was, I believe, in elementary school. I remember that even then I was captivated by the story and enchanted by the characters. I felt for the plight of the siblings and I remember thinking that it was awful that anyone would treat their children this way. Of course, at that age, I didn't really understand the deeper implications of the story, i.e. the incest and murder, but I did understand that this was a story that would be remembered for years. The story and its characters are haunting and they have haunted my memory for years and I will read this book and it's sequels again and again.
    • 4/5
      Creeeeeeepy......!
    • 4/5
      I read this back in jounior high and honestly didn't think I'd care for it. Back then, I loved it. The characters were a far step from the Romeo and Juliet types I was used to. When I skim through it now, I see it a little differently, but I still go back and read it on rainy days.
    • 3/5
      Quick, easy read. Overall, I found the book to be enjoyable. A bit of the dialogue seemed stilted and unnatural, but other than that it was okay. Not a literary masterpiece by any means; however, it is a good book to read when taking a break from heavier literary works.
    • 5/5
      Awesome, even the second time.
    • 4/5
      Creeeeeeepy......!
    • 3/5
      I know a lot of people come to Flowers in the Attic as teenagers and I can imagine that, if I'd done the same, its taboo subject and air of melodrama would have fascinated me. But reading it for the first time as an adult, I'm afraid I found it wanting. The story is simple: after the death of their father, four children move with their mother to her parents' house, but because her parents didn't approve of her marriage - and their sick grandfather doesn't even know they exist - they are hidden away in the attic until their mother can persuade her parents to accept them. The two older children do their best to make a game of it for their younger twin siblings - to create a magical world that will blot out the injustice of real life. However, as time passes, they begin to realise that perhaps no one has any intention of releasing them: perhaps it is easier for all the adults simply to keep them out of sight, out of mind. This becomes an even more powerful conviction as they come to understand exactly why their grandparents disapproved of their mother's marriage and the truth about their own births.It's an interesting concept but for me it was clumsily handled: the prospect of incest between the two older children was flagged virtually from the start, as the narrator adoringly (and disturbingly) fixates on her older brother's intelligence and beauty, and their wicked grandmother hints at the evils of the sexes being left alone together. Not only did I find the plot predictable, which spoiled my enjoyment, but I also felt that the writing was overblown and laboured. The dialogue, especially, sounded implausibly elaborate and artificial in the mouths of characters who were supposed to be children. Indeed, the whole thing felt as if it was less about the children being trapped in the attic, and more an excuse for the titillation of teenage incest. Perhaps that's the price of not having first read this at the impressionable age of thirteen or fourteen. I'm glad I gave it a go, but I don't have any desire to read the rest of the series; and unfortunately I don't think Virginia Andrews is for me.
    • 5/5
      Really inspiring book, highly recommended for all readers. I loved it
    • 5/5
      This has got to be one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. But it is so captivating. I had to keep reminding myself that it was fiction because this story kind of stays with you.
    • 1/5
      Beyond awful. Older Cathy is not just a narrarator, she's the one keeping the story together.
    • 5/5
      LOVE THIS BOOK.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite books. I have read it again and again.
    • 4/5
      It was everything I hoped for. So much drama and ridiculousness they made a lifetime movie. And now to read the rest of the series.
    • 5/5
      A haunting story about the power of love and creativity in the face of tragedy as four sibling endure years of entrapment at the hands of a mother who loves money more than anything and a grandmother who hates everything except her misguided sense of godly justice.
    • 5/5
      Flowers in the Attic is well written, with characters that reveal some aspects of their personalities quickly while slowly unveiling other aspects. The book is about an extremely dysfunctional family with four children hidden in the upper rooms of a large mansion. I won't say much more than that, because so much of the tension depends on learning what is really going on and watching the children trying to cope. This is a horror novel, but not one based on a supernatural monster. This terror is based on the betrayal of family rationalized with a combination of materialism and distorted religious beliefs. It is depressing at times, but the tension and fascinating characters kept me turning the pages.Flowers in the Attic was published 40 years ago, but the flaws in the characters it portrays are always relevant.
    • 5/5
      JESUS. I'd never read it.
    • 4/5
      Man, what a classic. It is a little weird coming back to this book. I don't think I've picked it up since middle school and it didn't disappoint. Although, reading it with adult eyes..... even ickier then I remember. Basically, if you're one of the five people who haven't read this book, the premise of the book is a mother (Corrine) is trying to get back into her father's good graces after she was disowned by him for marrying her half uncle. They had a very happy marriage and had four kids, but after an accident that leaves her a widow, she has no money, nowhere to go, and no way to support her kids. Corrine's mother knows about the kids but her father does not (he would be beyond disgusted if he discovered children were born out of an incestuous relationship), the mother finally relents to give the grieving family a place to live. The only catch is, they can't let the grandfather know! The good thing is, they live in a mansion; the kids can run around in the attic and the grandmother sneaks them food everyday. They bad news is they have to hide up there until the grandfather dies. Corrine is convinced she can get back into her father's good graces and inherit everything and then she and the kids can live like kings. He just can't know about the kids! He's in bad health and should die any day. It seems like an okay plan. At first. But as the months drag by and the kids are stuck trying to make a life living in the attic, they start to realize that no amount of money is worth having to live like they are. They miss the breeze, the grass, the fresh air, and the freedom to run. Their mother is slowly changing and they don't know how to hold onto their sanity. At first she visits them twice a day. Then once. Then every few days. Then every few months. The years pass. How much can the kids take? Slowly but surely, incestuous thought begin to take place between the oldest two kids. Will the cycle never end?!?!
    • 4/5
      4.0

      I have been feeling nostalgic lately, so I grabbed up several used Virginia Andrews books and started on my quest to scratch the 8th-grade itch I have been suffering from.

      I have to say of the many many many books I read at that time period in my life, this book stood out so clearly that upon re-read I found myself recalling every moment with equal parts either hesitancy and excitement. I may not like all the characters, agree with what happened or even one particular glossed over the moment that I was too fond of (no spoilers here), but the writing is very addicting. The writing isn't without its defects though as it can suffer from awkward dialogue and descriptions (see the description of the father's accident), and is sometimes more tell than show. The subject matter, while very dark, is still incredibly interesting. I can see how this author paved the way for many other similar dark tales that have come since, but nothing quite does it for me as VC does. Surprisingly this holds up.
    • 5/5
      Originally published in 1979. I read this book back in about 1983. I was in high school. It was definitely a page-turner reading how those kids were growing up, surviving and coming of age up in the attic. The veil over my young and innocent mind was literally falling off..haha.
    • 4/5
      This book was recommended to me by a friend. Got to admit, I thought this book was crazy and there are parts of this book that I really don't like. But I cried reading about what these 4 young and innocent children have to go through just to survive while locked up in the attic waiting…and waiting for their freedom. Overall...I kinda like this book. So borrowing the second one from my local library.
    • 3/5
      Yes, that book. I am a male in my 30s and I read Flowers in the Attic. Why, you ask? Once I was talking to a friend about who knows what at the time, and the topic of incest was brought up. Perhaps we were talking about it’s moral implication and so on. My friend said that Flowers in the Attic is “totally about incest.” I had no idea. I do remember, however, back in highschool so many of my female classmates were reading books by V. C. Andrews. I also remember that in the horror section of my school library that there were many books by the same author.In all, I ignored that it was there. I was a Stephen King fan anyway, and I had my pick of the litter.So, when my friend told me the synopsis of the plot, about four children locked away in the attic by an abusive grandmother and mother, and that incest is a great motivating factor in the plot of the book.And I read it. The writing is terrible. Towards the end, the speech of the children, Chris, the eldest boy, in particular, became more unrealistic in his describing what he witnesses. His speech becomes long and flowery, much like a Dickens knock-off. Granted, Dickens is mentioned within the first few pages of the book as inspiration for the narrator’s voice. But...the voice does not match the situation. With that said, though, the author did take some bold steps in what is easily (mis)construed as a young adult novel. There is detail of rape, sex, bodily functions, and desire that such an innocent opening does not foreshadow to. The voice, still, ends up being far too flowery, lacking the resentment that someone who went through such abuses would have, in my opinion.God comes up a lot. The grandmother is a matriarchal bringer of God’s wrath toward anything she deems as being sinful. God is prayed to a lot for deliverance, and then wanes when the narrator comes to the realization that “God only helps those who help themselves.”While reading this, I’ve done a little analysis and I’ve come to the conclusion that as awful as the Grandmother is according to the narrator, and the other children in the book, I think that the author, V.C. Andrews sees the grandmother as almost saintly. And that the author sees the children’s punishments and confinement as justified. Why? The sins of the father, of course. Deuteronomy 5.9 states “You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.” Granted, 24.16 of the same biblical book contradicts this by saying “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.” That notwithstanding, I feel that the author is making a point of stating that the sin conducted between the mother and father shall be revisited upon the children; that it was no accident that a certain car accident and death brought into motion the series of events that locked the children away in the attic. It was a well-deserved punishment considering the crime of dishonoring thy mother and father, and for commencing such an unclean act as incest.And through all of this, the grandmother is never punished. If anything, the children show small glimmers of remorse/affection/polite servitude for their grandmother. But she remains impassive, does her duty of serving the children food each day as their mother slowly is weaned from her previous life, from what has been bestowed upon her due to her selfish acts, and to start a life anew, far away enough to hide away the stains of her past.In the end, the mother gets away, the children get away (permanent wounds notwithstanding), and the grandmother goes unpunished - well, unpunished insofar as retribution for what she did to the children and their mother. There is an internal punishment from what is witnessed by Chris - that she did her duty to God, and is suffering her own punishment for not stopping what eventually happened between with her daughter when God finally steals away her wealthy husband.Of course, my analysis could be all wrong. After all, there are several books pertaining to the Dollanganger siblings and their ilk. I am told that there are further revelations worth reading, and even one that is a prequel of the Grandmother and Grandfather.I am glad I read it. I feel like I stepped into a further recess of shared secrets of my female companions - a story that is known, and sometimes experienced by those I love during their younger, impressionable lives. And, who knows, I may read the rest of the series. It has piqued my curiosity a bit.Thank you for reading my review. It has been a while since I’ve taken the time to write one.
    • 4/5
      A wonderfully trashy read.