Heap House (Iremonger 1): from the author of The Times Book of the Year Little
- Format: Paperback
- Språk: Engelsk
- Sjangere: Action og Eventyr, Fantasy
- Slippdato: 7. aug. 2014
- Forlag: Hot Key Books
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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.
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com
'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times
'Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should be' - Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013
'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis magazine
SKU | 9781471401596 |
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Vekt (Kg) : | 0.300000 |
Antall Sider | 416 |
Språk | Engelsk |
Volum | 1 |
Serie | Iremonger trilogy |
Sjanger | Action og Eventyr, Fantasy |
Format | Paperback |
Utgiver | Hot Key Books |
Opprinnelsesland : | Storbritannia |
Forfattere | Edward Carey |
Avansert Format | Paperback: B-Format (M) |
Aldersgruppe | Ungdom |