"Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel "Flowers in the Attic," Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues. Yet, once she rose to global literary fame, she prided herself on her intense privacy. This eye-opening look at the life of Virgina Andrews reveals a new side of the enigmatic woman behind one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Featuring family photographs, interviews with close family members, personal letters, a partial manuscript of an unpublished novel, and more, "The Woman Beyond the Attic" is perfect for V.C. Andrews fans who pick up every new novel or those wanting to return to the favorite novelist of their adolescence"--