Flowers in the Attic

by V. C. Andrews

No cover — V. C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic (1979, Simon & Schuster)

English language

Published Nov. 25, 1979 by Simon & Schuster.

OCLC Number:: 34149
Goodreads:: 891523

(36 reviews)

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.

3 editions

Apollo reviewed Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) by V. C. Andrews

Troubling and Gripping

3 stars

My mother had Flowers in the Attic and many other V.C. Andrews books on her shelves when I was growing up and got new books every year. Unlike all the speculative fiction books on my father's shelves, I never cracked the covers of these books, though the covers were fascinating to me. I had a good sense of the book's reputation before starting to read it last month. There are so many traumas, abuses, and deeply unsettling elements in this novel, and I'm not sure I could recommend it to someone who wasn't braced for and comfortable with all of that. It's a troubling story with plenty of complications and twists to make it gripping.

polibius reviewed Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) by V. C. Andrews

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No rating

I feel like everything it did right, it did entirely by accident.

Cheri reviewed Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) by V. C. Andrews

Review of 'Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I nearly quit my reread of this old book. The language is so dated and I was sure I wouldn't enjoy it at all. The regular uses of "golly" and "for" this and that were a bit annoying but by the time the kids were locked in the attic a while, I was hooked again, just like I was as a teenager.

Yes, this old-ish lady bought the sequel, [b:Petals on the Wind|226709|Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)|V.C. Andrews|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388176436s/226709.jpg|3311862] this morning, too. I can't remember if I read past book three all those years ago, and I won't commit to reading past book two now, but I suppose some stories are truly timeless. What's not to love about a well-done evil mother revenge story?