Heap house

eBook

• JF.E : Fremdsprachige Literatur : Englisch
• DR.JF : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen für Jugendliche : Fantasy - Romane für Jugendliche

Verfasser:
Carey, Edward

Verfasser Angabe:
Edward Carey

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Phantastische Jugendliteratur

Verlag:
Hot key books

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2013

Umfang:
251 S. Ill.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
9781471401589

Interessenskreise:
ab 14 Jahre

Bandangabe:
1

Reihe:
Iregmonger

Inhalt:
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. Edward Carey is a playwright, novelist and illustrator. He has worked for the theatre in London, Lithuania and Romania and with a shadow puppet master in Malaysia. He has written two illustrated novels for adults - OBSERVATORY MANSIONS and ALVA AND IRVA - and both have been translated into many different languages. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he wrote the Iremonger Trilogy because he missed feeling cold and gloomy.