Author(s): Edward Carey
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 416
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-08-07
Dimensions: 130 x 192 x 26mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition:
Illustrations: black and white sketches
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com
The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it.
Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the centre is Heap House, a puzzle of houses, castles, homes and mysteries reclaimed from the city and built into a living maze of staircases and scurrying rats. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal bath plug, says 'James Henry', Cousin Tummis's tap is squeaking 'Hilary Evelyn Ward-Jackson' and something in the attic is shouting 'Robert Burrington' and it sounds angry.
A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destroy Clod's world.
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 416
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-08-07
Dimensions: 130 x 192 x 26mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition:
Illustrations: black and white sketches
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com
The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it.
Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the centre is Heap House, a puzzle of houses, castles, homes and mysteries reclaimed from the city and built into a living maze of staircases and scurrying rats. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal bath plug, says 'James Henry', Cousin Tummis's tap is squeaking 'Hilary Evelyn Ward-Jackson' and something in the attic is shouting 'Robert Burrington' and it sounds angry.
A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destroy Clod's world.
Book Info | |
Author | Edward Carey |
Date Published | 2014-08-07 |
Dimensions | 130 x 192 x 26mm |
First Author | Edward Carey |
Format | Paperback |
Illustrations | black and white sketches |
ISBN | 9781471401596 |
Language | English |
No. of Pages | 416 |
Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
Publisher | Hot Key Books |
Heap House
- Edward Carey
- Paperback
- Publisher: Hot Key Books
- ISBN: 9781471401596
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