The first volume of a series of four novels written by VCAndrews (like no other sagas: VCAndrews stories told by his men and after his death, reconstructed memory then written by a professional writer ') I have read the books English so can not comment on the quality of the translation. This is the so-called literature station with psychological inconsistencies, some weaknesses but the story of these children trapped in an attic is captivating! Their wrong: being born of sin, therefore rejected by their grandparents, wealthy bigots who agreed to house the castle in public (to hide them from the face of the world) on the death of their father. To survive, they display a wealth of imagination: with paper, pastels, attic and garden becomes smaller can admire the blue sky (painted) and breathe the air of freedom birds they have drawn and bonded to the beams .. (the heat is stifling in summer and the attic is cold in winter) The older sister tirelessly made her ballet exercises for the perfect day free, she will star dancer, brother studied medicine with the On the same hope .. children, they become teenagers in this closed universe .. Their self-discipline is unwavering: only way not to die of grief .. gradually, the mother abandons the increasingly Only a grandmother obnoxiously hard and nasty brings them a basket of cold sandwiches and a thermos for journée..ou starves an entire week .. and the small health withers. the eyes become dull and full of despair, the creuses..L'un cheeks became seriously ill .. I will not tell you everything .. Read the book (and those that follow) This is monstrous!