Victoria tennant as corrine 1987.
Why was the mother disowned in flowers in the attic.
Corrine a beautiful housewife and mother raises her four strikingly attractive children with love and pride.
After the sudden death of their father teenagers chris and cathy and 5 year old twins cory and carrie are forced to travel with their mother corrine to live with her wealthy parents who disowned her years ago.
The family moves into corrines parents house.
Mother attempts to make the children s time in the secluded room fun by bringing them expensive gifts drawing implements a television and music to listen to.
Cory carrie cathy and chris remain in the attic for two days before the grandfather malcom walks upstairs and accepts them as his grandchildren.
Flowers in the attic is about this 12 year old girl named cathy whose family is picture perfect.
A background and the controversy.
The year is the 1950s.
Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary.
Just generally the 1950s.
Flowers in the attic opens with the dollangangers a charmed family of two parents and four children who are all blond haired and blue eyed.
Andrews it is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary.
Their destitute mother tells them that in order to regain the fortune from which she has been disinherited they must hide in their grandparents vast attic for a few days so she can persuade their.
In order to once again become her ill father s beloved daughter and inherit the money corrine hatched a plan with her mother to lock the four kids in the attic of their mansion foxworth hall.
Over time the younger children grow used to playing in the dusty attic joining in on making bugs and flowers for the garden or playing hide and seek among the old armoires and trunks.
Corrine s mother olivia a religious fanatic takes in her daughter and grandchildren on the condition that the children must be sequestered in a locked room so her dying husband malcolm will never know of their existence.
But then the dad dies in a car accident on his 36th birthday.
Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary.
That is why i rarely drive on my birthday honestly.
Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.
Flowers in the attic edit.
For those who didn t sneak their mother s copy of flowers in the attic off the nightstand to consume in breathless gulps a quick run down of the plot.
A father dies in a car accident on his 36th birthday the mother corrine dollanganger does all she can for her four children but cannot make enough money.
Petals on the wind.
The father chris sr is killed in an accident and the mother corrine discovers that they ve been too busy being beautiful and taxing mental acuity with alliterative names to learn a job skill or to save money so.
