Welcome to the forum Je suis desole, it's great to see your post!
There are a few books that impressed me very much. One of them was from
Virginia Andrews- the Dollander series:
- Flowers in the Attic; Petals in the wind; If there be thorns
"Her most well-known novel is the infamous bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of four children locked in the attic of a wealthy Virginia family by their estranged religious grandmother for four years."
I sometimes was emotional and got angry, was shocked and felt oppressed and sad by reading the first book. It felt as if I was one of the children. It was so strange and wrong that a grandmother could treat children like that way and I wished I could help!
I realize it was a book I was reading, but look what happened the last years with children! How ill some people are and how bad in real live children are treated and abused also. Think about the little girls in Belgium who were kept prison by Mark Dutrout! Or think about that girl in Austria that was kept hostage in a cellar for many years! Another example is that daughter that came in the news last year who got children of her dad and nobody knew she was hidden in the garden, while her dad told his wife and others she was gone? How often do we get news like that in future? It makes me mad, everybody should keep their hands off children and people who can
