Heap House

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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Carey, Edward
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Carey, Edward	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Young Clod, living in his family's mansion amongst a mass of shifting forgotten items, becomes aware of the items whispering to him and senses a growing storm ahead, needing the help of an orphan servant to unravel the mystery.
"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of a Birth Object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all--his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the house's many objects are showing strange signs of life. Clod is on the cusp of being 'trousered' and married off (unhappily) to his cousin Pinalippy when he meets the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family's empire."--Publisher's website.

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Loved it! submitted by amelnik on July 8, 2016, 2:59pm A little hard to get into at first as it can be a little confusing, but it's very well-written and delightfully weird. I can't wait to read the next in the series.

Love Edward Gorey, Wes Anderson Movies, and Charles Dickens? Try this! submitted by CJBO on May 15, 2023, 3:16pm This book has been hard for me to put down ever since I checked it out. The odd, deeply developed characters and bizarre Victorian-age world that they live in is immersive and shockingly fast-paced. I heard about this book from the Overdue podcast (a podcast about books) and it did not disappoint. The author also created illustrations for each chapter/character and of the Heap House itself --all of which are both haunting and entertaining. Very Wes Anderson-esque. If you like the dark, the morbid, the strange, and excellent plotting then I can't recommend this book enough. Heap House was written for young adults, but that never slowed me down.