How long does it take to read Flowers in the Attic?
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews takes about 7 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Dollanganger
Next: Petals on the Wind
About 7 hours 32 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 411 pages, about 113,025 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 73 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in the Attic was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels."
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- death of a child
- abuse
Subjects: Gothic fiction, Psychological Thriller, coming of age, classics, doughnuts, incest
