Heaven

V. C. Andrews

Feb 2011 · Casteel Book 1 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic comes the first book in the Casteel Family saga—now a Lifetime movie series event.

Of all the folks on the mountain, the Casteel children are the lowest. Even the families that buy them think so.

Heaven Leigh Casteel may be the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, but her cruel father and weary stepmother work her like a mule. For the sake of her brother Tom and the other little ones, Heaven clings to the hope that someday she can show the world that they are worthy of love and respect.

But when the children’s stepmother can’t take it anymore and abandons the family, Heaven’s father hatches a scheme that will alter her young life forever. Being sold to a strange couple is just the beginning; ripping away the thin veneer of civilization and learning the adult secrets of the world around her means Heaven must abandon someone, too—the child she was, to become the woman her mother never had the chance to be.

Ratings and reviews

I have not read this book yet, but just now read what it was about. Read the first three books and enjoyed them. What I'd like to know is, if she or someone she knew might've grew up in an abusive environment.

Re-reading this book as an adult, I have an even better appreciation for the strength and resilience of Heaven. V. C Andrews isn't afraid of writing about taboo subjects and doesn't shy away from tough subjects nor make them out to be either some big unbelievable drama or some corny, sappy thing. A really interesting journey in to the dirt-poor hill people's daily lives that I didn't ever really think about before, and yet now can't help but come away admiring.

I love V. C. Andrew's I've watched all of her other movies she's made. and read all the books. so far this book is really good!! I look forward on reading and watching the rest of her movies.

About the author

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.