The Iremonger Trilogy by Edward Carey (books 1 & 2)
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Overview: Edward Carey is a novelist, visual artist and playwright. He has written and produced several plays. His debut novel, Observatory Mansions (with author’s illustrations) is sold in 14 countries and was described by John Fowles as ‘proving the potential brilliance of the novel form’. His second novel, Alva and Irva The Twins Who Saved A City, was longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award in 2005. He has written several adaptations for the stage, including Patrick Süskind’s The Pigeon, and Robert Coover’s Pinocchio in Venice. His own plays include Sulking Thomas and Captain of the Birds. Five of his plays have been produced in London, Romania and Lithuania. He has also worked as a set designer and illustrator. Carey attended the University of Iowa International Writing Program and taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is married to the writer Elizabeth McCracken.
Genre: Children > Middle Grade, Fantasy, Gothic
Heap House (#1): 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.
Foulsham (#2): Foulsham, London’s great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and the real people into objects.
Abandoned in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger, more animal than human. She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and ‘lost’. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down.
But all around the city, things, everyday things, are twitching into life…
"Edward Carey’s Heap House— delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should be." –Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries"Iremonger torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London into a singularly jaunty and creepy tale of agreeable misfits. Read it by gas lamp, with a glass of absinthe at your wrist and a fireplace poker by your knee." –Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
"I cannot recommend Heap House by Edward Carey enough. The best book of its kind since Gormenghast (& more exciting)." –Gregory Norminton
"Fabulously strange and in the tradition of Mervyn Peake… Astonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read." –Sunday Times Best Children’s Books of 2013
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