Like many others I read Flowers in the Attic at way too young of an age. I revisited it a few times but never on audio. I decided to take the plunge and listen to it. Mena Suvari does an excellent job at narrating the story. It felt as though she was Cathy.
Flowers in the Attic is about a woman who is happily married with four beautiful children. Her life is seemingly perfect until her husband dies. She is left with mountains of debt and no way to care for her children. She seeks out her estranged mother who allows her to return to her childhood home. Corinne packs up her children under the guise that they will live with in her childhood home. She waits until the last moment possible to make them aware that they will have to hid until she can get her father's forgiveness.
Cathy, Chris and the twins Cory and Carrie are hidden in a secluded room in the grand mansion. They are told it will be hidden for days but those days turn into weeks, months and then years without any contact with the outside world except for their mother and angry grandmother.
They are forced to hear that the are evil children and unworthy. They suffer abuse, neglect and eventually have to rescue themselves as the mother they once knew because progressively more selfish and unloving.
This book deals with subjects that may be triggering to others.
