Product Description

From the author of Flowers in the Attic comes Book Three of the internationally bestselling Dollenganger family saga. The family was now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past, and, in the sunshine and joy of their new life, with the children and their shared love, they tried to forget the anguish of their loveless inheritance. But the hidden secrets of the past rose up to trouble them. Their parents' dark heritage began to haunt them once more. The rage and hatred they felt returned to torment and twist the new generation. Only if they could forgive their mother and forgo their final revenge could they at last find the peace they so desperately sought.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11965 in Books
• Published on: 1981-06-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
'Beautifully written, macabre and thoroughly nasty!it is evocative of the nasty fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and The Babes in the Wood, with a bit of Victorian Gothic thrown in. ! What does shine through is her ability to see the world through a child's eyes' Daily Express 'Makes horror irresistible' Glasgow Sunday Mail 'A gruesome saga!the storyline is compelling, many millions have no wish to put this down' Ms London 'There is strength in her books -- the bizarre plots matched with the pathos of the entrapped' The Times

About the Author
Virginia Andrews lived in Norfolk, Virginia, studied art and worked as a fashion illustrator, commercial artist and portrait painter. Flowers in the Attic, based on a true story, was her first novel. It became an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1979. Virginia Andrews died in 1986, leaving a considerable amount of unpublished work.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic
This story was a very worthy follow-up from Petals on the Wind. I couldnt put it down. Told from the perspective of Jory and Bart (Cathy's sons), this tells the story of their lives. Everything was fine until a mysterious old lady moves in next door, shattering the saftey bubble that Cathy and Chris had placed around their family. Bart takes a liking to this lady as he feels nobody understands him, and when she asks him to call her "Grandmother" and her butler "John Amos Jackson" starts to tell Bart tales of horror about his family things take a turn for the worse. Especially when the freaky butler gives him the journal of Malcolm Neal Foxworth and tells young Bart to read it every day. Jory suspects his brother is going crazy and all the family start to feel wary of him. Slowly the secrets that Cathy and Chris thought they had buried come to light and the family must cope in every way. This story has twists and turns in unlikley places and it is truly a thriller among thrillers. I cannot wait to start Seeds of Yesterday and then read the Prequel.

Excelent
I found this book both gripping and emotional. An amazing folow-on from Flowers in the attic as the children try to carry on with their lives. I could not put it down and highly recomend it to anyone, Virginia Andrews Fans or not.

It's a V. C. Andrews original, so of course it's phenomenal
Well, I've noticed that a lot of V. C. Andrews books have many different review on them, but surprisingly, there is only one for If there be Thorns? This is Virginia's third published book and a helluva lot better than any of the ghost written books, so I don't understand why more people didn't review it? First of all, it starts off with male narrators, this is the only one with male narrators, but two!?!? I think this was very clever of Virginia to write about this. Everyone knows that the Dollanganger and Casteel and Audrina books are gothic horror, but we all know that the Dollanganer books are at her most gothic, and she defines it well in If there be thorns, I mean, Bart behaves so bizzare and weird. Jory is the perfect one, I could feel Malcolm's presence everywhere in it, just like in Seeds of Yesterday. Also, it has actual journal entries of Malcoml Foxworth himself! It's like he's narrating a small portion of the series. You learn more of the truth, you even get hints about the dreadful secrets revealed in Garden of Shadows in this book. It's one of the best of the eleven that Virginia wrote, the ghost written books are very good, but they will never be Virginia's novels. This is one of her 100% written novels, so it should be more widely admired and appreciated, at least more than ghost written books like Melody, Ruby, Tarnished Gold, Twillight's Chile, etc . . . feed back welcome. ~Tom Nordlum