Flowers in the Attic (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians

When I was a preteen, my mom was reading V. C. Andrews’s Flowers in the Attic. It was a bestseller and had a lot of buzz—there’s an incestuous relationship in it, not graphic or anything, but very salacious—and I wanted to read it so badly.