Ironically, such a cover suggests the very image of marred beauty that White Oleander elegantly portrays. In her debut book, Janet Finch has created real characters in real places. Astrid, the only ...

For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favorite flower: the White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home.

"It was aiming high for a low-budget movie on a dark subject," British director Peter Kosminsky says of his desire to cast Michelle Pfeiffer in White Oleander ... old named Astrid (Alison Lohman ...