While a teenager, Virginia suffered a tragic accident, falling down the stairs at her school and incurred severe back injuries. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator.

Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born Jin Portsmouth, Virginia. Books since her death ghost written by Andrew Neiderman, but still attributed to the V.C. Andrews.īooks published under the following names - Virginia Andrews, V.

With the fortieth anniversary celebration of Flowers in the Attic, and ten new Lifetime movies in the past five years, there has never been a better time to experience the forbidden world of V.C. With a husband alternately absent and possessively close, Corrine doesn’t yet realize that she’s barely scratched the surface of what lies beneath Foxworth Hall’s dark facade and the family that guards its legacies. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers.Įven her son, Malcolm Foxworth, born in the luxe Swan Room and instantly whisked away to a wet nurse, feels alien to her. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of her as insufficient-as not a Foxworth.

Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. The second book in a new prequel story arc, Out of the Attic explores the Dollanganger family saga by traveling back decades to when the clan’s wicked destiny first took root. The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic. “I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic in my gnarled hands on my deathbed.” -GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sharp Objects

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