num_pages: 411
description: Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....'
language: English
title: Flowers in the Attic
titlecomplete: Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
characters: Chris Dollanganger, Carrie Dollanganger, Cathy Dollanganger, Cory Dollanganger, Corrine Dollanganger, Olivia Foxworth
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Horror, Young Adult, Romance, Adult, Classics
ratings_count: 205012
places: Virginia
series: Dollanganger
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Secondary
publisher: Simon and Schuster