To all this, something called “golden rod cake” has been added.
Many of the familiar motifs from the original Dollanganger series have been inserted into Beneath the Attic, like gothic Foxworth Hall and its paintings of disapproving ancestors, the ostentatious and forbidden swan bed, and the spooky, sprawling attic. Then, kaboom! Before the wedding can take place, the book is suddenly over.īut the copycat plot and abrupt ending aren’t the problem with Beneath the Attic.
She journeys to Charlottesville/Atlanta to take up residence in his family home. Lucky for her, Garland/Rhett is amenable. Through an unfortunate series of events, she finds herself socially obligated to marry and marry fast for appearances’ sake. She is both provoked by and attracted to him.Ĭorrine/Scarlett pines for Garland/Ashley and is determined to make him fall in love with her. When Corrine/Scarlett encounters Garland/Rhett at a high-society shindig, it seems she might have finally met her match. Girls her own age are jealous, of course. Her old-fashioned mother disapproves of her immodest inclinations, but her father dotes on her. The plot is pretty much a rewrite of the first few chapters of Gone with the Wind, with Corrine filling in for Scarlett O’Hara, Garland Foxworth doing double-duty as a split personality mashup of Rhett Butler and Ashley Wilkes, and no Civil War to provide gravitas to the thin storyline.Ī summary of the action: 16-year-old Southern belle Corrine/Scarlett is blessed with the kind of beauty that drives men wild. If my math is right, that makes her the great-grandmother of Cathy Dollanganger, the protagonist of Flowers in the Attic. Andrews copyright holders published Beneath the Attic, an unconventional type of book and something I, at least, had never heard of before: a prequel to prequel.īeneath the Attictells the story of Corrine, a precocious teen who finds herself on the cusp of marrying into the cursed Foxworth family in 1890.
In 2019, to mark the 40th anniversary of the launch of what became known as the “ Dollanganger series,” the V.C. Andrews in 1986 wouldn’t stop the books from coming. In 1979, a gothic fiction renaissance was kicked off by the publication of Flowers in the Attic, a tale of imprisonment, child abuse and incest. What the new ‘Flowers in the Attic’ book gets completely wrong
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