Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger
(Sprache: Englisch)
Picking up where Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth leaves off, Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend up the ante-by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger's journal.
Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and...
Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and...
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Picking up where Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth leaves off, Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend up the ante-by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger's journal.Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge-the discovery of Christopher's diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light and obsesses a new generation. With Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind both now major Lifetime TV events, the first new Dollanganger stories in nearly thirty years is a timely look at the events in the attic-from teenage Christopher's point of view.
Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings-Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie-were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother's greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden-until now.
Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family.
Accompanying her dad to the "forbidden territory," they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen's story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin's every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line...
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Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger Seeing how upset my father was, I realized that I had another reason to get through Christopher's diary: to solve the puzzles for him. Who wanted this large home on the Foxworth property, and why? I hoped that the clues were somewhere in the diary. Of course, I would say nothing of this to Kane. I had no idea what it all meant or even if it meant anything that concerned the Dollanganger children, and the one thing I didn't want to do was start a conversation about it in school.
Talk among our group of friends was centered on Tina Kennedy's upcoming party, anyway. Kane knew how I felt about going. Nevertheless, he enjoyed teasing her by saying we still weren't sure of our schedule. "We hope to be there, but there are a few things in the works."
"In the works? What does that mean?" she asked him, and he just looked at me and then gave her a smile and a slight shrug, leaving her gaping after us.
"Why do you tease her, Kane? Don't you know that especially for a girl like Tina, any attention breeds hope?"
"I'm not teasing. It's the truth, isn't it? We have things in the works. Maybe we'll go, or maybe we'll be up in your attic."
"Not when my father is home," I said. "And if he sees us spending so much time in my room, especially on a weekend, he's going to get suspicious."
He gave me the oddest look, his head a little tilted to the right, his eyes smaller. "Sure you're not exaggerating his attitude about the diary?" he asked.
"I'm sure. He's made it crystal-clear a number of times."
He still looked skeptical, which annoyed me. In fact, I was irritable for the rest of the day. I know I didn't seem myself to my girlfriends. I had nothing funny or flattering to say about Suzette's new shade of lipstick, which she was proudly demonstrating on her perky little sexy mouth. She had used that description of herself, the girl with the perky little sexy mouth, ever since her older brother's college buddy
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described her that way and set her eyelids fluttering for a week.
But I wasn't ignoring just Suzette. Kyra's father had given her a black and gold pyramid stud wrap watch this morning, because her birthday was falling on Thanksgiving this year, and he wanted her to feel the impact of a special day. He and her mother would give her gifts every day until Thanksgiving and probably the day after, too. All of us had expressed interest in such a watch, so I knew I should have been happier for her when she showed it to us.
I was having moments like this ever since Kane first proposed reading the diary together. Without reason, I would find myself trembling and slinking away from contact with my girlfriends. The moments passed quickly enough. They were like tiny puffs of black smoke after a match was struck. Kane always seemed to be able to bring me back with his jokes and offbeat smile.
However, he knew he had annoyed me by doubting that my father was so against my reading the diary. He apologized at lunch and broke his rule that we shouldn't talk about the diary outside of my attic, or at least outside of my house.
"It's a very sad, even at times brutal story, but after some of the stories lately concerning people locked away for years, it's not full of black magic or anything for me. That's all I meant."
"We haven't reached the end, Kane. You might change your mind."
He nodded. "I might," he admitted. "But that's more reason for us to do it like we're doing it. We can comfort each other, right?"
"Comfort?"
"Just like Cathy and Christopher did," he said. "Everything unpleasant is more unpleasant when you're the only one feeling or experiencing it. That's why as soon as something bad happens to us, we like to share it. We need the empathy and sympathy to help u
But I wasn't ignoring just Suzette. Kyra's father had given her a black and gold pyramid stud wrap watch this morning, because her birthday was falling on Thanksgiving this year, and he wanted her to feel the impact of a special day. He and her mother would give her gifts every day until Thanksgiving and probably the day after, too. All of us had expressed interest in such a watch, so I knew I should have been happier for her when she showed it to us.
I was having moments like this ever since Kane first proposed reading the diary together. Without reason, I would find myself trembling and slinking away from contact with my girlfriends. The moments passed quickly enough. They were like tiny puffs of black smoke after a match was struck. Kane always seemed to be able to bring me back with his jokes and offbeat smile.
However, he knew he had annoyed me by doubting that my father was so against my reading the diary. He apologized at lunch and broke his rule that we shouldn't talk about the diary outside of my attic, or at least outside of my house.
"It's a very sad, even at times brutal story, but after some of the stories lately concerning people locked away for years, it's not full of black magic or anything for me. That's all I meant."
"We haven't reached the end, Kane. You might change your mind."
He nodded. "I might," he admitted. "But that's more reason for us to do it like we're doing it. We can comfort each other, right?"
"Comfort?"
"Just like Cathy and Christopher did," he said. "Everything unpleasant is more unpleasant when you're the only one feeling or experiencing it. That's why as soon as something bad happens to us, we like to share it. We need the empathy and sympathy to help u
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Autoren-Porträt von Virginia C. Andrews
One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of Flowers in the Attic, first in the renowned Dollanganger family series, which includes Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. The family saga continues with Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Secret Brother, as well as Beneath the Attic, Out of the Attic, and Shadows of Foxworth as part of the fortieth anniversary celebration. There are more than ninety V.C. Andrews novels, which have sold over 107 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five foreign languages. Andrews's life story is told in The Woman Beyond the Attic. Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Virginia C. Andrews
- 2015, 384 Seiten, Maße: 10,5 x 17,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Pocket Books
- ISBN-10: 1476790620
- ISBN-13: 9781476790626
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.01.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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