Garden of Shadows explains the origin of the grandmother from the first book in which V. C. Andrews series?
Flowers in the Attic Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series, and was followed by "Petals on the Wind", "If There Be Thorns", "Seeds of Yesterday", and "Garden of Shadows". The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. It was twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014. The book was extremely popular, selling over forty million copies world-wide.
A Bird in the House A Bird in the House, first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. Noted by Laurence to be "semi-autobiographical", the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka, Manitoba. "A Bird in the House" was written from the perspective of Vanessa at age forty, while she recalls her childhood (with the exception of the final chapter "Jericho's Brick Battlements", when she revisits her childhood home). It is therefore impossible to tell if young Vanessa was truly able to understand the events unfolding around her, or if she gained that understanding later in life. Originally published as a series of independent short stories,