The second one has them taken in by a kindly doctor, who Cathy starts a relationship with. I think he's in his 40s? She also has a relationship with a male ballet dancer, and tries to seduce her mother's boyfriend, and succeeds. (ish, she ends up with two sons, one from each of those 'romances', but possibly back with kind doctor in the end?) And she burns down the evil house.
The third one was quite boring, as it's told from her sons' perspectives. The fourth one has them return to a replica of the house that her youngest son has built as he is obsessed with his grandmother or something, so they all traipse back for some weird family reunion. I may be making this up now...but there is more incest as Cathy and Chris have denied their feelings for each other for years but now give in and in their 50s live as husband and wife, which really pisses off young son and leads to all sorts of problems. And it does end in the attic, which old Cathy has been decorating like they did when they were kids.
Yes, I was slightly obsessed with these books as a teen, can you tell?
Oh! And there's a prequel! In which you learn why the grandmother was so awful, and that Cathy's mother and father weren't half uncle and niece (or whatever it was) but in fact half brother and sister! MORE INCEST!!
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Date: 2010-06-06 10:57 am (UTC)The third one was quite boring, as it's told from her sons' perspectives. The fourth one has them return to a replica of the house that her youngest son has built as he is obsessed with his grandmother or something, so they all traipse back for some weird family reunion. I may be making this up now...but there is more incest as Cathy and Chris have denied their feelings for each other for years but now give in and in their 50s live as husband and wife, which really pisses off young son and leads to all sorts of problems. And it does end in the attic, which old Cathy has been decorating like they did when they were kids.
Yes, I was slightly obsessed with these books as a teen, can you tell?
Oh! And there's a prequel! In which you learn why the grandmother was so awful, and that Cathy's mother and father weren't half uncle and niece (or whatever it was) but in fact half brother and sister! MORE INCEST!!
This may be more than you wanted to know...