Heap House

Edward Carey
 Edward Carey`s small biography…

LITTLE BIOGRAPHY
Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator
who was born in North Walsham,
Norfolk, England, during an April
snowstorm. Like his father and his
grandfather, both officers in the Royal
Navy, he attended Pangbourne Nautical
College, where the closest he came to
following his family calling was playing
Captain Andy in the school’s production
of Showboat.

born 1970
Edward Carey
Iremonger
Triology
These triology consist of three
books:
1. Heap House
2. Foulsham
3. Lungdon
Peculiarity of this triology is
that the author himself draws
drawings for his books
 1.
Heap House
Edward Carey
 everything, all the
enormity that followed,
actually began on the
day when the Rosamus
aunt's door handle
disappeared.
 About Heap House…

His birth object, a universal

Clod is an Iremonger. He
bath plug, says ‘James
lives in the Heaps, a vast
Henry Hayward’, Cousin
sea of lost and discarded
Tummis’ tap is muttering
items collected from all
‘Hilary Evelyn Ward-
over London. At the centre
Jackson’ and something in
is Heap House, a puzzle of
the attic is shouting ‘Robert
houses, castles, homes and
Burrington’ and it sounds
mysteries reclaimed from
angry. A storm is brewing
the city and built into a
over Heap House. The
living maze of staircases
Iremongers are growing
and scurrying rats. The
restless and the whispers
Iremongers are a mean and
are getting louder. When
cruel family, robust and
Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a
hardworking, but Clod has
girl newly arrived from the
an illness. He can hear the
city, everything changes.
objects whispering.
The secrets that bind Heap
House together begin to
unravel to reveal a dark
truth that threatens to
Explore Heap House . . .
Here Lies Heap House, home
of the Iremonger family,
surrounded by the great
rubbish heaps of London.
 Edward Carey
Explore
Foulsham . . . Here
lies Foulsham, borough
of all London’s filth and
waste.
 Explore Lungdon . . .
Here lie the Houses of Parliament, unhappy
palace of government in a diseased city.
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