![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Surgeries that were meant to help only made things worse and she spent the rest of her life with limited mobility and largely confined to bed or a wheelchair.Īndrews has said that the themes of confinement and Cathy’s perspective of being imprisoned in the attic came from her own lived experience following her injury and failed surgeries.Īndrews’s relationship with her mother has made fans wonder if that inspired some of the tension between the Flowers character Cathy and her mother. It also aggravated a pre-existing condition. Her first book wasn’t published until she was 57.īut when she was 17, Andrews stumbled down a flight of steps which threw her spine out of alignment. So it’s not wonder that when it came time for her to pick up a pen, a gothic horror story like Flowers in the Attic came out.Īndrews also lived a slightly tragic life before finding her calling as an author. ![]() Andrews loved fairy tales and gothic literature like Jane Eyre and Dracula while growing up. It is dark and twisted, yet the fascination for these characters comes from their flaws. Andrews includes a lot of heavy themes and topics such as incest, rape, child abuse, and more. The result was wide-spread bans on the books, yet readers ferociously flocked to the series. Its themes pushed boundaries of what was deemed socially acceptable. The Flowers in the Attic series in order challenged audiences immediately following its publication. ![]()
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