The show is based on the posthumously published, Garden of Shadows: a prequel started by Andrews before her death and finished (rather perfunctorily) by her ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. That is, until Lifetime’s new miniseries, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin. Yet the film adaptations have left much to be desired - filmmakers shied away from taking the source material as seriously as it has deserved. This disturbing five-book tale of incest, child abuse, generational trauma, and arsenic-laced donuts has aged like gothic wine in a blood-soaked barrel thanks to VC Andrews’s lyrical and compelling prose. Even those coming to the Flowers in the Attic series more recently go through the same shock as we younguns did back then. So many of us read the books way too young in the 80s and were forever marked by the twisted story.
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