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Heaven (Casteel #1)

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Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels were the lowest -- the scum of the hills. Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pr...more

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Published November 1st 1990 by Pocket Books (first published January 1st 1985)

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Dec 27, 2012 Yvonne rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is the book that set me on the path to become the avid reader I am to day. My mothers co-worker told her about it. Then she started telling my sister about it, they passed it back and forth and had very interesting conversations that I could not get involved in because I did not know anything about Heaven, her father, or her "fresh" sister Franny. Finally they finished and it was just sitting there mocking me. So I picked it up. Then I was able to talk about this sad faimly. Then I read eve...more

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Dec 03, 2011 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, family-sagas-wtf, modern-gothic, zz-2011, reviewed, reviewed-snarky, characters-named-sarah, keepers-miscellany, whingy-noodle-boner

Here's another book that screws with the grading curve. If you look at other 4-star reads -- Frankenstein, for example -- there's no way poor VC Andrews can measure up. Yet my verdict stands...four shiny stars, the sign of a book I plan to keep around, & I'm not ashamed to admit it. (Don't look, Mary Shelley.)

This book is loosely divided into three sections. The first is Heaven's life in the West Virginia mountains. As the blurb indicates, her Casteel family is hillbilly scum -- poor, dirty,...more

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Jun 18, 2011 Bethany Harvey rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: embarrassed-to-admit, crap-of-which-i-have-fond-memories

It's impossible to rate this book fairly. On the one hand, it's far from great literature. On the other, it fulfills its purpose (trashy, soap-opera fun) so well, it's hard to give it a low rating.

Plus, it's masterfully designed to hit all the sweet spots in a preteen's psyche. The fact that my classmates and I lived in the area where this book is set and loved it in spite of its insulting and ridiculous hillbilly stereotypes just goes to show the bulletproof appeal of this book to middle-school...more

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Dec 04, 2011 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Um...I almost gave this five stars because I love V.C. and her trashy, soap opera books (but, you know, it's not beautifully written or anything so I restrained myself). I must say: I am horrified by the amount of people that I've proudly told I'm reading V.C. again, only to receive a confused or blank look in return. Is V.C. Andrews not required reading for teenagers? And let me tell you, it still holds up for us adults.

It's been a looong time since I last read Heaven, and I was expecting all...more

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Aug 24, 2008 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: embarrassed-to-admit

OK - I know it doesn't really deserve 4 stars because it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but it brings back such fun memories. I was about 14 when I first read this book, giggling with my girlfriends over all the dirty parts. Re-reading it as a "grown-up" cemented my love for the book - it's horrible, tasteless, trashy and loads of fun!

I see it as a poor man's Little House on the Prairie (if they had lived in West Virginia) You've got Ma, Pa and a bunch of unkempt children sharing a one b...more

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Nov 26, 2008 Kelly Jones rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: adolescent girls who want to feel like their doing something naughty.

Recommended to Kelly by: classmate

Shelves: guilty-pleasures

Like many, I became engulfed in the white trash drama of the Casteel family in the seventh grade. Ashley Anderson gave me a copy in Mr. Nelson's science class one day and from that moment on (or at least for the next year or so, until I finished the series), my life was changed. I gave the book five stars, but keep in mind, I read it over fifteen years ago. However, the impact was obviously huge. So take the reccomondation how you see fit. Also-Just for fun....Compare and contrast Heaven by VC A...more

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Jun 06, 2013 jessica malice rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: mindless

I read this because I got the ePub for free. I regretted it the entire way through. I sped through it as fast as I could so it would be over. I didn't realise that it was for young people? Is it? It makes more sense now.

I'm guessing it is the kind of book that people read to escape their own horribly miserable, traumatic lives for one that is slightly less horrible and traumatic, like a soap opera watcher's book or something. My issue is that I got absolutely nothing out of it. No learning, no m...more I read this because I got the ePub for free. I regretted it the entire way through. I sped through it as fast as I could so it would be over. I didn't realise that it was for young people? Is it? It makes more sense now.

I'm guessing it is the kind of book that people read to escape their own horribly miserable, traumatic lives for one that is slightly less horrible and traumatic, like a soap opera watcher's book or something. My issue is that I got absolutely nothing out of it. No learning, no meaning, no moral, and, as much as I try and wrangle one, no deeper allegory. If all you want is to be entertained, why not just watch an actual soap opera so you're wasting less of your time?

I mean, that's my value. I'm not yelling at the people who do read this kinda thing. I just never would... unless I was trolled into it by a free epub (and I have issues not finishing books I start).

Okay, this review is getting more revealing of my own flaws than anything about the book.

So the book. It's kinda in three stages: Heaven's first miserable life (up to age 14 or whatever), Heaven's second miserable life (up to age 16 or 17; it switches here and there), and the third, much shorter, part where the two lives all crash into each other and cause havoc and unrest and misery and zero satisfaction or closure. That's fine, I understand it as a technique. What's not fine is that every single scene and chapter and interaction and thought process is just SO. DRAWN. OUT. It was like the first stage was a really super-long intro to the second stage, which (when you reach the second stage) makes you go, "Oh, so now it's going to actually start!" but no, the second stage is just another super drawn-out lead-up to the third... which then rushes about with no rhyme or reason and then bam, it's over. VC Andrews has no sense of timing and a distinct lack of skill in the area of concise, effective description; seeming to highly prize quantity over quality. What a drag.

Also everyone in this book is shockingly gorgeous. I really hate it when they do that.(less)

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Apr 02, 2013 Rebecca Coulby rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this book when I was 14 years old and I fell in love with it. Heaven was a wonderful passionate heroine because she rose above so many obstacles what I liked about her was she reminded me so much of myself she was shy,beautiful,smart,passionate,and courageous. I really liked the romantic aspect of it Logan was the knight in shining armor that saw something that nobody else did what made it even more passionate was the rivalry between her and her sister fanny. Kitty's character in the book...more

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Mar 17, 2013 Jo Scott rated it 4 of 5 stars

Her stories might seem sensational even trashy but at least V Andrews was talking about the ugly. This and Andrews other books, made my ugly feel less lonely, it kept me company at night, when my ugly was creeping outside my bedroom door demanding a sandwich from his cooperative wife before he moved on to complete his nights work.
In an era when the misery memoir was not so present, before child-line and the wider acceptance of abuse in the home she unconsciously kept a lot of abuse victims comp...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Heidi rated it 2 of 5 stars

This was a favorite from my early teenage years, so when I saw it on sale, I thought I'd see if the magic was still there. The answer was a resounding NO. Sad.

The first half of the book wasn't so bad. Heaven Leigh Casteel (the name should have been my first clue...) lives in the hills of West Virginia, and her family is at the bottom of the pecking order in their small town. Actually, the Casteels live out of town, up in the hills. (Seven miles away from town, to be exact. Yet it only takes them...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Miss Ami E. Bowen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: most-engaging-stories, not-to-be-missed-series, favorites, favourite-books

The only reason I put this on my "Best Books" shelf is for the sentimental value that this book has. This is the very first V.C. Andrews book I ever read, which was a gift from my mother who gave it to me after I got home from school one afternoon. She only said one thing about the book before handing it over; "That poor girl." Which, of course, piqued my curiosity at once. I remember getting in trouble for staying up past my bedtime to continue reading in secret when my mother went back out to...more

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Sep 04, 2010 V rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this somewhere around the beginning of middle school, and if I had first read it as an adult it probably wouldn't have been given anywhere near 4 stars. I couldn't bring myself to rate it lower for a couple reasons: I remember absolutely loving the book, and on the "V.C. Andrews" scale of literature, it's probably her most engaging story.

I went on to read what must have been a dozen or more by Andrews during my childhood and adolescence, and I've forgotten the majority of the plot lines f...more

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Nov 01, 2011 Joybell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I feel so ashamed to allocate four stars to this trashy, completely unrealistic, and occasionally disturbing novel. However, if I didn't, I'd just be lying to myself.

V.C Andrews is the absolute Queen of Trash, Queen of Ethereal-Beauties-Who-are-Constantly-in-Fear-of-Getting-Raped, Queen of Handsome-Evil-Rich Men, and Queen of What-the-Hell! I've never read (or even heard) of another author mass-producing such drivel for the eagerly waiting masses to lap up. If another such author exists - please...more

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Apr 07, 2012 V H rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bookcrossing

I had a Norwegian edition of this book that I used to read over and over again when I was younger and I have been wanting to read it again for several years now, so when I saw it in a bookshop in Airlie Beach for $2 I just had to get it.

There was actually a lot of what happened in the book that I couldn't remember, especially towards the end, so it was almost like reading it for the first time because I wasn't completely sure about what was going to happen.

They never mention a year in the book,...more

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Jan 07, 2010 Jay rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, incest-is-best, tab-a-in-slot-b

I'm disappointed in you, Andrews!

Unlike most of V.C. Andrews staples, and the precedent Flowers in the Attic set, this book lacks in the incest department. However, this has all the other hallmarks of a V.C. Andrews works- a family saga, an underprivileged girl from a distant privileged background, a doomed love story, a distant father, a complex relationship with a mother, and so on. There is some form of incest (after all, this is Andrews), but it's of the adoptive parent kind. Heaven is raped...more I'm disappointed in you, Andrews!

Unlike most of V.C. Andrews staples, and the precedent Flowers in the Attic set, this book lacks in the incest department. However, this has all the other hallmarks of a V.C. Andrews works- a family saga, an underprivileged girl from a distant privileged background, a doomed love story, a distant father, a complex relationship with a mother, and so on. There is some form of incest (after all, this is Andrews), but it's of the adoptive parent kind. Heaven is raped repeatedly by her adoptive father, Cal, although she doesn't fully recognise it (which I'll get to soon), and Fanny reveals that she is having her adoptive father's baby, her adoptive father being a reverend no less.

I will momentarily praise Andrews for writing Heaven's reaction to her repeated rape in a somewhat believable manner. Heaven is desperate for the love of a parent all throughout the book. Her grandparents loved her- and I believe her grandfather was belittled and abused by his son for so long that he no loner stood up to him, even when he was selling his children off- but she longed for a parental figure. I think Sarah appreciated her more than loved her, but I do sense some kind of care there. But then there was Kitty and Cal. Cal showed Heaven everything Kitty wouldn't, and the rest of the adult figures in her life didn't. She wanted love, and with that, kind, physical attention and touch. After being beaten and abused by Kitty, Cal's kind touch would have been a blessing, even though he had other intentions. Heaven knew what was going on was wrong, but she accepted it. This doesn't mean she wanted it, and it's said again and again she knew it was wrong, but she accepted it because she thought it meant Cal loved her. It's only at the end that she finally realises he doesn't, and he's just using her. Cal is a grey character. I refuse to believe he's meant to be seen as a villain in the end, but he's not an all-round nice guy.

As far as rating this book goes, it's V.C. Andrews. It's not fine literature, and my copy was riddled with spelling and grammatical errors (including here instead of hear), and as always, the characters speak in an overly-floral manner. And the prose isn't as purple as it is Flowers in the Attic, as well, which was a welcome surprise. In short, it's trash, but it's the better side of trash. If you've read Andrews before, you'll know what to expect.

Overall enjoyable, I'm ashamed to say.(less)

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Oct 08, 2011 Kali rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Sep 20, 2011 Christine Powell rated it 5 of 5 stars

I had a blast reading the book. I had drama, romance, intrigue and adventure, the Casteels are a remarkable set of people it amazes me how much we are like them today all the pride and self consciousness that was displayed by Heaven's father. I was immensely touched by the way they treated Heaven, knowing that she was not blood relative, Sarah was a model mother she just had too much. Heaven displayed such great level of responsibility and maturity upon her assuming the role as caretaker after t...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Owlnothuman rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Jun 09, 2011 Clare rated it 1 of 5 stars

This was the second selection for middle-school book club, and my first real experience with V.C. Andrews other than a few stolen glances at a friend's copy of Flowers in the Attic in sixth grade. I was fully prepared for the incest and other assorted drama (though, I must say, the graphic nature of the hamster murder took me a bit by surprise), but I felt I wasn't really able to enjoy the so-bad-it's-good nature of this book to its fullest extent because the structure of it was just atrociously...more

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Jan 13, 2010 Jordan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: All Young Adult Females

Recommended to Jordan by: krf1117

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Aug 15, 2011 Sunnykimmy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

This is my all-time favourite series of V.C. Andrews and I read quite a few of her books. I read these books(Dutch versions) when I was in middle school and I loved them. They were engaging,real page-turners, every book just as intriguing as its predecessor. I'm not sure why this one was my favourite series,because I also like the Dawn series. Although I love V.C. Andrews' writing, at some point I realized that all of her books are sick and twisted, which makes for good reading material, but jus...more

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Mar 14, 2011 Loraine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-as-a-child, romance, favourites, part-of-series, chick-lit

I was about 11 or 12 when I first read this book and it left such an impression on me, being at an impressionable young age and all that. A classic rags to riches story with a lot of heartache on the way, a beautiful young girl who wants nothing but love from her father. There is the typical male obsession with a beautiful woman, the vanity and selfishness of a female 'relative' and the troublesome young female 'relative' - all typical Virginia Andrews stuff. She writes a lot about females livin...more

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Mar 26, 2008 Lara rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was almost embarrassed to admit that I read this, but whatever. Who doesn't like a fluffy book every now and again? This one was pretty damn craptastic.

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Sep 17, 2012 Vicki rated it 4 of 5 stars

One of the first novels I ever really read and got me into reading. As a 12/13 year old I loved it, my memories of it are great and I reckon if i read it again now 16 years later and a much more advanced reader I don't think I would have the same opinion so I will not re-read it and just hang on to my memories. Probably not something I would let a young girl read either as there is so many disturbing stories of incest and dirty bits a child of that age shouldn't be reading. It's beautifully trag...more

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Feb 01, 2009 Rosell rated it 4 of 5 stars

I failed a Pharmacology test because of this book.Instead of studying for it,i chose to read this one the night before.Beautifully tragic.Heaven Leigh Casteel only wanted one thing,to show to the world that they are worthy of love and respect even though they're from the slums.She also had a curse.That of being Beautiful.Family drama overload.I did cry reading this one and i have to ask my friend(Ayen,who owned the book )if i could tear the page on where Heaven's dad sold them.(she said yes,by t...more

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Oct 20, 2011 Lounie Maranan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There were a lot of draggy parts in the book. And I hate the protagonist at the end. It's like I don't ever want to know what's going to happen to her. The writing though was good and made you feel like you're learning another language. The themes in the book are typical of V.C. Andrews-- oppressed children, coming-of-age realizations, and sexuality. Also she has the same characters-- an oppressed teenage girl, an evil mother figure with a more evil mother and a loving hero. Overall, it's a good...more

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Dec 06, 2008 Scott rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: twisted

VC Andrews first novel in a series are always the strongest. I enjoyed the setting of the backwoods West Virginia girl. All of Andrews novels are twisted and I enjoyed the "I'll take it their" gumption of all her books.

As I have gotten older, the themes seem a bit dated - the nightly news seems to one-up Andrews now-a-days. It also doesn't help that Andrews herself has been long dead and her style has been turned into a recipe that "bakes up" series after series of young heroines caught in unfor...more

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Oct 25, 2011 P.B. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. RATING: 4.5/5

SUMMARY:
Heaven Leigh Casteel and her half-siblings, Tom, Fanny, Keith and 'Our Jane', live in the hills of West Virginia with their father, Luke, and his second wife, Sarah. They are poor and are ridiculed by all the people in Winnerow, called 'hill scum trash' and taunted at the school for their old clothes and inability to purchase text books. Even then, they still seem to be getting along despite their father's continual absence and irregular visits to drop of food. Also, there i...more RATING: 4.5/5

SUMMARY:
Heaven Leigh Casteel and her half-siblings, Tom, Fanny, Keith and 'Our Jane', live in the hills of West Virginia with their father, Luke, and his second wife, Sarah. They are poor and are ridiculed by all the people in Winnerow, called 'hill scum trash' and taunted at the school for their old clothes and inability to purchase text books. Even then, they still seem to be getting along despite their father's continual absence and irregular visits to drop of food. Also, there is the arrival of a boy who fancies her and isn't repelled by the Casteel's reputation. This whole shaky routine is interrupted, however, when Sarah gives birth to a still born baby due to their father, Luke, contracting syphilis. So some days later, she abandons her children there in the shack and leaves.

When Luke returns to find his children half starved and without a mother, he is furious. Soon after, he begins selling them off to richer couples who want kids for $500 each. The youngest, Keith and 'Our Jane' go with nice and wealthy people, Fanny goes with Rev. Wise and his wife, Tom goes off to be a farm hand and Heaven eventually goes with Kitty and Cal Dennison. From then on, she suffers under Kitty's abuse and eventual depression as well Cal's desire for her during his wife's 'phase' of cruelty.

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I thought it was a fantastic book. The character of Heaven was likeable, inspiring and even relatable to some extent. Andrew's has this uncanny ability to create 3-dimensional characters, and I enjoyed reading about Miss Deale's teaching, Logan's knight-in-shining-armour personality and Heaven's mother, Angel's, history.

The writing was phenomenal and interesting. I've always liked how Andrew's can tell a story. I think Heaven was well written, though there were some times when I wondered how bad her situation could get. I suppose, if I could change one thing about the book to give it a 5/5 rating, I'd have had to hear from Miss Deale, just so that it didn't seem all that hopeless- but perhaps in the next book.
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Apr 23, 2012 Stephanie Asbridge rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Holy crowbear. VC Andrews is, in my opinion, the most talented author ever. You know, without having read her book “Ruby” (review soon) I wouldn’t have ever liked reading, and then I wouldn’t be blogging here now!

Heaven is one of the older novels by Andrews, when she was actually the one writing her books (She died and a ghost writer is publishing under her name now). All of the details and scenery were so vivid, especially in the “Willies” aka the hills in West Virginia. I felt like I was there...more

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Oct 08, 2010 ♥Xeni♥ rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, family, audiobook, young-adult, fiction, author-v-c-andrews, abuse

I enjoyed some previous Andrews novels (especially the 4 girls known as the Orphans) but this book just was freaky, annoying and just plain weird!

Heaven lives in a rather 1800's way, out in the hills of some southern state, in really primitive conditions with her father, grandfather and way too many siblings to count. Her life sucks horribly, but things go from bad to worse: her mother runs away, her father starts showing an interest in her body, her younger siblings are sold into adoption by h...more

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About V.C. Andrews

Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The An...more Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school.

While a teenager, Virginia suffered a tragic accident, falling down the stairs at her school and incurred severe back injuries. Arthritis and a failed spinal surgical procedure forced her to spend most of her life on crutches or in a wheelchair.

Virginia excelled in school and, at fifteen, won a scholarship for writing a parody of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. She proudly earned her diploma from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth. After graduation, she nurtured her artistic talent by completing a four-year correspondence art course while living at home with her family.

After William Andrews died in the late 1960's, Virginia helped to support herself and her mother through her extremely successful career as a commercial artist, portrait painter, and fashion illustrator.

Frustrated with the lack of creative satisfaction that her work provided, Virginia sought creative release through writing, which she did in secret. In 1972, she completed her first novel, The Gods of the Green Mountain [sic], a science-fantasy story. It was never published. Between 1972 and 1979, she wrote nine novels and twenty short stories, of which only one was published. "I Slept with My Uncle on My Wedding Night", a short fiction piece, was published in a pulp confession magazine.

Promise gleamed over the horizon for Virginia when she submitted a 290,000-word novel, The Obsessed, to a publishing company. She was told that the story had potential, but needed to be trimmed and spiced up a bit. She drafted a new outline in a single night and added "unspeakable things my mother didn't want me to write about." The ninety-eight-page revision was re-titled Flowers in the Attic and she was paid a $7,500 advance. Her new-generation Gothic novel reached the best-seller lists a mere two weeks after its 1979 paperback publication by Pocket Books.

Petals on the Wind, her sequel to Flowers, was published the next year, earning Virginia a $35,000 advance. The second book remained on the New York Times best-seller list for an unbelievable nineteen weeks (Flowers also returned to the list). These first two novels alone sold over seven million copies in only two years. The third novel of the Dollanganger series, If There Be Thorns, was released in 1981, bringing Virginia a $75,000 advance. It reached No. 2 on many best-seller lists within its first two weeks.

Taking a break from the chronicles of Chris and Cathy Dollanganger, Virginia published her one, and only, stand-alone novel, My Sweet Audrina, in 1982. The book welcomed an immediate success, topping the sales figures of her previous novels. Two years later, a fourth Dollanganger novel was released, Seeds of Yesterday. According to the New York Times, Seeds was the best-selling fiction paperback novel of 1984. Also in 1984, V.C. Andrews was named "Professional Woman of the Year" by the city of Norfolk, Virginia.

Upon Andrews's death in 1986, two final novels--Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts--were published. These two novels are considered the last to bear the "V.C. Andrews" name and to be almost completely written by Andrews herself.

Her novels were so successful that after her death her estate hired a ghost writer Andrew Neiderman, to write more stories to be published under her name.(less)

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