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This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews.
Young Leon and Ursula had little except each other. Mother was driven by a psychotic need to clean?constantly?everything in sight. Father was consumed by his medical practice and an analytical approach to life. But he understood the sensual hunger growing inside his children's young bodies. He knew they could help each other answer, ?The Need.? Father had Science. Father had Reason. And he had Pin. Pin who answered all the children's questions in a voice not unlike the doctor's. Father's clever trick. Father's brilliant illusion. But then there was the accident and Mother and the doctor were dead. Still there was Pin?who had so much to tell then even yet...whose enigmatic stare held such wisdom. There would just be the three of them now. Quiet Leon, beautiful and frightened Ursula, and wise, implacable Pin. They were all each of them would need. Ever.
Marty, age seventeen, and Judy, age fourteen, become stepbrother and stepsister when their parents marry. When Marty’s father attempts to attack Judy, Marty beats him off. The pair flee to a nearby, seemingly deserted old resort in the Catskills, where they discover the owner still living as if the hotel were about to open. They participate in the old man’s fantasy to keep themselves safe, carrying on a Romeo and Juliet romance, unaware they are constantly being watched….
A brilliant high school senior girl is quite taken with the science of behavioral modification. When her father suffers a stroke, she experiments with her own family, turning her home into a laboratory, unbeknownst to her teachers and neighbors who have only the highest regard for her. It isn’t until a teacher becomes suspicious that her terror is exposed….
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