When their love was discovered, Corinne’s father Malcolm disowned her, and tossed them both out. Unbeknownst to the children, Corinne’s husband (their father) was also her father’s half-brother. Deeply in debt, their mother Corinne takes the children to her ancestral family home, Foxworth Hall. She, along with older brother Chris, and younger sibling twins Carrie and Corey, have their idyllic lives ripped out from under them when their father dies in an accident.
In case you’re the rare person who doesn’t know the plot, Flowers in the Attic is the story of the Dollanganger children, told from the viewpoint of the oldest daughter, Cathy. Winter, “When I wrote Flowers in the Attic, all of Cathy’s feelings about being in prison were my feelings. If you think about her emotional life and her experiences and independence – which there was none – her life kind of stopped when she was about 14 or 15.” Patty was right on the money, as in a rare interview published in the 1985 book, Faces of Fear: Encounters With the Creators of Modern Horror, Andrews told Douglas E. Never.” After meeting Andrews, and realizing she was disabled, Patty said, “And then it all became clear: was that teenager.
I just thought I’d never read anything like this. You wouldn’t call it a good style, but it was a style. Patty has said, when she read it, she thought, “It’s like a crazy fairy tale. Her story, I Slept with My Uncle on My Wedding Night, certainly sounds like it paved the way for her subsequent best sellers.Įventually Flowers in the Attic ended up in the hands of Ann Patty, a young editor at Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Books division. According to her 1979 pitch letter for Flowers in the Attic, sent to literary agent Anita Diamant, she said she’d sold three gothic romances under a pseudonym, and had also written confession stories for pulp confession magazines. At around age 50, she completed her first novel, Gods of Green Mountain, a science fiction fantasy, and wrote nine novels and twenty short stories between 19.
Not satisfied creatively with her work, she took to writing in secret. She excelled in school, and after a four-year correspondence course in art, had a successful career as a commercial artist, fashion illustrator, and portrait painter. She spent most of her life in a wheelchair or using crutches, but never let it slow her down. Why was I watching this dreck? Which led to an even bigger question, why did I, along with millions of others, love it so much in the first place?īorn Cleo Virginia Andrews in Portsmouth, Virginia, Andrews suffered a fall that led to her being disabled from the age of 15. Finding out during the commercial break trivia that he’d directed Fallen Hearts (one of the Heaven series), it brought me to another question. Andrews books on Lifetime last weekend, I wondered if, as an actor, Jason Priestly ever choked on the dreck coming out of his mouth. As I was watching a marathon of movies adapted from V.C.
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