# Flowers in the Attic

**Author(s):** V.C. Andrews
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**Genres:** gothic-horror, psychological-thriller, literary-classics, literary-fiction, childrens
**Pages:** 411
**Publisher:** Pocket Books
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 1981 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-10:** 0671452665
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/flowers-in-the-attic

## Description

Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in the Attic was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels."


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Also contained in:
[Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16524231W)

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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**Themes:** Coming of Age, Gothic