Flowers in the Attic

This is the is a book reveiw of the book flowers in the attic.
This is a book writen by Virginia Andrews.
Virginia Andrews lived in portsmouth, Virginia, was born in 1933.
Flowers in the attic was the first novel. It is based on a true story, of four children locked in an attic for nearly four years. Its sequels are petals in the wind and if there be thorns. all of these books have be successful.

This story starts traically as the childrens father is killed in a accident and they are forced to move out of there house. There mother decided to move back with her wealthy parents who had disowed her after her marrige. The children chirs, cathy, carrie and cory are forced to live in a attic while there mother tries to win back the affection of her father whilst keeping the children a secret from every one but her grandmother, gradully there mother forgot about her children.

The story is told from Cathy the second oldest at the age of 12, point of view, it is writen in past tense so it is made like she herself is telling the story: This is the first paragraph of the prologue, on how she felt about hope and a bit of what she felt while she was locked in the attic.

"It is so appropriate to colour hope yellow, like that sun we seldom saw. and as i begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that i kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. open the window and stand in the sunshine. Yet i hesitatte to name our story that. For i think us more as flowers in the attic. paper flowers, born so brightly coloured, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed. but, we were never to colour even one of our paper blossoms yellow."
to me flowers in the attic was a story of change, lies, trust, and betrayal all between one family, the children must hold on to what little hope they have as well as each other.