Heaven
By: V.C. Andrews.
Edition: [Book Club ed.]
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 308
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Fiction
Description: In the hill country of West Virginia, life is hard, but it is the only life young Heaven Leigh Casteel has ever known. Through the frigid winter nights, when the wind blows mercilessly through the cracks in the cabin floor, Heaven, huddled in an old patched quilt, dreams of college--and of her beautiful, frail mother, who died in childbirth at the age of 14. She determines to someday go to college and to find her mother's family, Boston Brahmins who never learned their daughter's fate. Meanwhile, she must help her step- mother, Sarah, feed and care for the four other children, for her Pa is a no-good moonshiner who beats and then neglects his family.

Heaven seeks and finds refuge in her schoolbooks; in Tom, her beloved half brother and soulmate, and in sweet little Keith and "Our Jane," the youngest Cas- teel children. Then Sarah, treated too shabbily for too long by her mean-tem- pered husband, leaves the cabin for good,...