To be opened twenty years after my death.
An edition of Garden of Shadows
(1987)
Garden of Shadows
First Pocket Books Printing (1)
by V. C. Andrews
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Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...
V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions--of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she has waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread... an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives... a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!
The wicked curse of the Dollanganger family begins in... Garden of Shadows
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series:dollanganger, car accidents, stroke, heart attack, avalanche, breast cancer, marital rape, dysfunctional families, incest, child abuse, Family secrets, Wife abuse, Fiction, Horror tales, families, horror fiction, mothers and daughters, revenge, Fiction, horror, Dollanger family (fictitious characters), fiction, Children's fiction, Horror stories, Marriage, fiction, Girls, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general, Inceste, Romans, nouvelles, Familles, collectionid:vcadgPeople
Olivia Winfield, Malcolm Foxworth, Corinne Foxworth, Malcom Neal Foxworth Jr., Joel Joseph Foxworth, Garland Foxworth, Alicia Foxworth, Chris Dollanganger, Cathy Dollanganger, Cory Dollanganger, Carrie Dollanganger, John Amos, Christopher FoxworthPlaces
Connecticut, New London, Foxworth Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia, Swan Room, Europe, Harvard University, Gladstone, Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaTimes
1920s, Great DepressionShowing 10 featured editions. View all 35 editions?
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1987-11, Pocket Books
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Book Details
First Sentence
"WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, MY FATHER BOUGHT ME A priceless handcrafted dollhouse."
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Prequel to: Flowers in the attic.
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Dollanger Series #5
Garden of Shadows is the "prequel" to V.C. Andrews' phenomenally popular Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic and continued with Petals on the Wind, If there Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday.
In Garden of Shadows we travel back in time to meet Malcom Foxworth when he was young, dashing, filled with ambition. On a trip to Connecticut he meets Olivia Winfield. Tall, stern, bookish, Olivia has resigned herself to being an old maid--until the handsome Malcom Foxworth proposes. Suddenly she has a new chance at a happy life. But soon after she arrives at Foxworth Hall, shadows begin to gather and Malcom's dark side emerges.
Malcom's father returns, accompanied by a child bride, and Malcom becomes obsessed with the pretty, vibrant young woman. Children are born: three boys and one special, beautiful girl. One of these children will hold the key to the shocking secret that will taint the Foxworths forever--a secret known only to the older generation, a secret that will reveal, at last, why Malcom Foxworth and his wife become evil.
Once again, V.C. Andrews spins an enthralling tale of a tangled web of family emotions.
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first sentence
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, MY FATHER BOUGHT ME A priceless handcrafted dollhouse.
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