In garden of shadows her biological mother is revealed to be alicia who was locked up in the attic during her pregnancy with corrine and olivia fakes pregnancy to pass corrine off as hers and never told corrine the truth about not being her mother.
Flowers in the attic mother dies.
Flowers in the attic inspired the band name for amanda palmer s band the dresden dolls while gillian flynn has said that the mother and grandmother characters begat her addiction to wicked.
But eventually tragic events lead to their decision to break out.
In petals on the wind she may have put cory s body in a hidden room in the attic but she states that she buried him in the ground in flowers in the attic.
The family moves into corrines parents house.
Trusting their mother who loved them the dollanganger kids stuck it out in the attic for as long as they could.