Hidden Jewel (1995)
Hidden Jewel is a 1995 fiction book written by V.C. Andrews.
Pearl Andreas grew up in a New Orleans mansion, raised on comfort and her mother Ruby's Cajun stories, and she dreams of medical school. A summer working as a nurse's aide, a sudden family accident, and old secrets begin pulling her back toward the bayou her mother once fled. V.C. Andrews's fourth Landry novel trades in the trademarks readers know: a sheltered heroine, a tainted family legacy, Louisiana heat, and the slow gothic dread of inherited sins. Published in 1995 and completed by the ghostwriter who carried the brand on after Andrews's death, it closes out Ruby's saga through her daughter's eyes.
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What is Hidden Jewel about?
Pearl Andreas grew up in a New Orleans mansion, raised on comfort and her mother Ruby's Cajun stories, and she dreams of medical school. A summer working as a nurse's aide, a sudden family accident, and old secrets begin pulling her back toward the bayou her mother once fled. V.C. Andrews's fourth Landry novel trades in the trademarks readers know: a sheltered heroine, a tainted family legacy, Louisiana heat, and the slow gothic dread of inherited sins. Published in 1995 and completed by the ghostwriter who carried the brand on after Andrews's death, it closes out Ruby's saga through her daughter's eyes.
When was Hidden Jewel published?
Hidden Jewel was published in 1995.
Who made Hidden Jewel?
Hidden Jewel was written by V.C. Andrews.
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Readers drawn to V.C. Andrews's hothouse family gothic should watch the 2014 Flowers in the Attic adaptation, taken from her most famous novel. Sharp Objects, the HBO series set in a humid Missouri town, carries the same buried-family-secret dread and Southern rot. For pure bayou atmosphere, the series True Blood soaks in the same Louisiana gothic heat.