- Gothic fiction, Psychological Thriller, coming of age, classics
Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in the Attic was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels."
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- Author
- V.C. Andrews
- First published
- January 1979
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Świat Książki, Debolsillo Mexico
- Editions
- 73
- Language
- German, French, Russian, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780007436828
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“Truly, when I was very young, way back in the Fifties, I believed all of life would be like one long and perfect summer day.”
V. C. Andrews - vcandrewsbooks.com **Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.** She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Andrews died of breast cancer at the age of 63. Andrews' novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love, and sometimes include a rags-to-riches story.Wikipedia Born:Cleo Virginia Andrews, Jun 6, 1923, Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. Died:Dec 19, 1986, Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. Occupation:Novelist
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