If we lacked some necessity, I couldn’t name it if we had luxuries, I couldn’t name those, either, without comparing what we had to what others had, and nobody had more or less in our middleclass neighborhood. There’s not much I can say about our earliest childhood except that it was very good, and for that, I should be everlastingly grateful. 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. The elder siblings do their best to make the best of it, making up a magical world for the younger siblings to enjoy as they buy their time in the attic.

Because the grandparents never approved of the marriage, and the sickly grandfather doesn’t even know of the children’s existence, they are forced to remain in the attic until their mother can persuade her parents to accept them. Her bestselling phenomenon Flowers in the Attic is the first book of the renowned Dollanganger family series, including Petals on the Wind If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows.Įven beyond this series, the family saga continues with Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Secret Brother, as well as Beneath the Attic, Out of the Attic, and Shadows of Foxworth.Īfter their father’s death, four heartbroken children move into their mother’s parent’s house, where they are hidden away in the attic. Andrews is known as being one of the most popular authors of all time.

Flowers in the attic books in order