The story of a dysfunctional family from Virginia. They were the ideal middle-class family living in Gladstone, Pennsylvania until the father’s death changed everything. Andrews Books in Order: The Dollanganger Family Series in Order So take into account that most of the books published after 1986 have been written by Neiderman. As it has been argued successfully that Virginia Andrews’s name was a valuable commercial asset, Andrew Neiderman has since then continued to write books under her name. Andrews wrote stories revolving around family secrets and forbidden love, rags-to-riches stories filled with incestuous relationships, rapes, false pregnancies, Wicked grandmothers, rags-to-riches stories, twins, and much more.Īfter her death from breast cancer in 1986, her family hired a ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, to finish the manuscripts she had started, Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts. Andrews’s first book as she wrote the science-fiction novel Gods of Green Mountain before, but the story was unpublished during her lifetime (it was released in e-book in 2004). She wrote under the names: Virginia Andrews, V.

After that, she published a new novel each year until her death. Andrews was an American author mixing gothic horror with family saga who made her name with Flowers in the Attic, published in 1979, and which became an instant success.

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