Edited by Caro1970 at 10-09-2023 10:44
The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began twogenerations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in theAttic. The second book in a new prequel story arc, Out of the Attic exploresthe Dollanganger family saga by traveling back decades to when the clan’swicked destiny first took root. Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth followinga wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds herlife very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion ofFoxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of her asinsufficient—as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls,and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers. Even her son, Malcolm Foxworth, born in the luxe Swan Roomand instantly whisked away to a wet nurse, feels alien to her. With a husbandalternately absent and possessively close, Corrine doesn’t yet realize thatshe’s barely scratched the surface of what lies beneath Foxworth Hall’s darkfacade and the family that guards its legacies.
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