“Flowers in the Attic” (post 1) by V. C. Andrews: Novelist Gillian Flynn says she likes this novel because she’s addicted to wicked women, but there may be an additional reason

“Twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014, the book was extremely popular, selling over forty million copies world-wide…A review in The Washington Post when the book was originally released described the book as “deranged swill” that “may well be the worst book I have ever read.” The retrospective in The Guardian agreed that it is deranged but called it "utterly compelling” (1).

Novelist Gillian Flynn—author of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects—says in her Foreword to Flowers in the Attic that she’s loved this book, because of her “addiction to wicked women” (2), but see Comments below for an additional reason.

Early in Flowers in the Attic , the narrator says, “Before I died, I was going to live in a thousand rooms or more, “a little voice whispered in my ear” (2, p. 34).

Comments: That her narrator hears such a voice suggests that V. C. Andrews my have had multiple personality trait. And I recall that Gillian Flynn’s novels suggested that she had multiple personality trait, too. Search “Gillian Flynn” in this blog to see what I mean.

1. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic

2. V. C. Andrews. Flowers in the Attic. 40th Anniversary Edition. With a Foreword by Gillian Flynn. New York, Gallery Books, 1979/2019.