Catherine knows only two things are important to her mother: her money and her young husband. Catherine blames her mother for everything, including Carrie's health problems and Christopher's refusal to stop showing her inappropriate affections. Paul comes to Carrie's rescue and removes her from that school, but the damage has already been done.Īs Catherine studies ballet and looks to a bright future, she cannot stop looking back on the past. Carrie is tortured at school, left blindfolded on the roof of the building because one of the students thinks she looks funny with her big head and underdeveloped body. All seems well for the Dollanganger children, but darkness lurks just around the corner. Catherine begins attending high school and a ballet school in the evenings and on weekends. Christopher begins an advanced program that will help him excel in college and medical school. Paul has the children tested and placed in appropriate schools, doing all he can to help them move into a more normal life. However, Corrine Foxworth Winslow does not appear in court, ignoring the summons completely.ĭr. This will mean notifying their mother of his intentions, giving the children some hope that their mother might come and acknowledge them. Paul insists on keeping them with him, telling them he wants to make them his legal wards through the courts. When Christopher decides it is time to move on, Dr. Paul accepts their story and does all he can to remove the arsenic from Carrie's system, the source of her current illness. Petals on the Wind is a novel of growing up in an all too real world and of the revenge that can only poison what is good and precious.Ĭhristopher warns his sisters not to tell the widowed doctor the truth about their past, but Catherine sees no other way to get Carrie the help she needs. However, Christopher cannot let go of his undying affection for Catherine, Carrie still does not grow as she should, and Catherine cannot let go of a need for revenge against the woman responsible for all their pain. The children find warmth and acceptance in the home of Dr.
Paul Sheffield, a small town country doctor. A fellow passenger on the bus decides to take them to the home of her employer, Dr. However, Carrie becomes very ill on the bus and they are forced to get off the bus. The surviving Dollanganger children are on a bus bound for Florida, where they hope to become acrobats in the circus. This novel picks up where the first, Flowers in the Attic, leaves off. Andrews is the second in the Dollanganger series.
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