num_pages: 410
description: 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 Tummiss 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 Clods world.
language: English
title: Heap House
publisher: Hot Key Books