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iavatus
Since: Oct, 2010
2011-03-07 22:11:31
Could be a Virginia Andrews book. Written about the right time, flowers in the name, parental abandonment and sleazy people. Ticks em all.
168.174.253.222
Since: Dec, 1969

This was a book - narrated in first-person, I think - about a girl living on a farm with a sister (and brother?). Their father had abandoned them, and they were in danger of losing their home for some reason. There was this kind of sleazy guy that the sister was in love with, and even though the protagonist disliked him, her sister ended up having to marry him to save the house. The title had something about a flower in it - I want to say lilies but I'm not sure. It was older, too, I think - maybe written around the sixties or seventies.