by Edward Carey · Hot Key Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781471401596
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«Heap House» is Edward Carey's young adult fantasy novel, published by Hot Key Books in paperback (416 pages, in English).
In Heap House, a mansion risen from a vast repository of lost and discarded objects, Clod Iremonger hears whispers emanating from things: every object has its own name. When he meets Lucy Pennant, newly arrived from the city, the secrets holding his eccentric family together begin to crumble, and a dark truth threatens to destroy his world.
First instalment of the Iremonger trilogy, published in 2014.
Recommended for young readers and teenagers fond of dark fantasy, the gothic, and adventures set in Victorian times.
Edward Carey is an English playwright and novelist. 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. He collaborated with Eddin Khoo on the wayang kulit translation of Macbeth called Macbeth in the Shadows.
