Heap House
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Heap House (2013)

Edward Carey

Others: Positive

Clod Iremonger, who lives with his family at Heap House surrounded by the garbage and discards of London, has the gift--or curse--of hearing the whispers of objects in the rubbish heaps surrounding his house. Through the whispers Clod learns of a great danger coming to Heap House, and he teams up with a servant named Lucy Pennant to head off the danger before it arrives.

ISBN:
9781468309539
Length:
410 pages

Genres: young adult

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Reviews1

Loved it

I've been describing it as like a combination between A Series of Unfortunate Events and like Charles Dickens kind of stuff it's hard to explain what it's about but it's worth it's about this family called Iron Monger family and they live outside of London in kind of the mountains of trash that are outside of the city