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If There Be Thorns

by V. C. Andrews

First Published

1981

Subjects

series:dollanganger
Novel
half-brothers
ballet
Congenital insensitivity to pain
diaries
wheelchairs
attics
cellars
funerals
Domestic fiction
fiction
series
horror tales
Horror
The Dollanganger Series
family series
Horror - General
Fiction / General
Fiction - Horror
Family secrets
Adult child abuse victims
Child abuse
Revenge
Translations into French
American Horror tales
Fiction, horror
Dollanger family (fictitious characters), fiction
Secrecy - Fiction
Brothers and sisters - Fiction
Grandmothers - Fiction
Human relations - Fiction
Child abuse - Fiction
Family - Fiction
Family relations - Fiction
Horror stories
Revenge - Fiction
Incest - Fiction
Large type books
Fiction, general
Dysfunctional families
Families
Incest
Teenagers
Grandmothers
Incesto
Ficcion
Adolescentes
Abuso sexual de ninos
Abuelas
Familias de problemias
Venganza
Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Fiction, family life, general
collectionid:vcadg

Description

*If There Be Thorns* is a novel by Virginia Andrews which was published in 1981. It is the third book in the Dollanganger series. The story takes place in the year 1982. The book is narrated by two half-brothers, Jory and Bart Sheffield. Jory is a handsome, talented young man who wants to follow his mother Cathy in her career in the ballet, while Bart, who is unattractive and clumsy, feels he is outshone by Jory. By now, Cathy and Chris live together as common-law husband and wife. To hide their history, they tell the boys and other people they know that Chris was Paul's younger brother. Unable to have more children, Cathy secretly adopts Cindy, the daughter of one her former dance students, who was killed in an accident, because she longs to have a child that is hers and Chris's. Initially against it, Chris comes to accept the child. Lonely from all the attention Jory and Cindy are receiving, Bart befriends an elderly neighbor that moved in next door, who invites him over for cookies and ice cream and encourages him to call her "Grandmother." Jory also visits the old lady next door, and she reveals that she is actually his grandmother. Jory initially doesn't believe her, and avoids her at all costs. The old woman and Bart, on the other hand, soon develop an affectionate friendship, and the woman does her best to give Bart whatever he wants, provided that Bart promises to keep her gifts—-and their relationship-—a secret from his mother. ---------- Also contained in: [If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16526063W)

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