"Families." . . "Family secrets Fiction." . . "The extensive Iremonger family of Filching (\"kings of mildew, moguls of mould\") has made a fortune from junk, building a dark and sprawling mansion from salvage scrap. Heap House is surrounded by the dangerous, noxious, shifting Heaps that stretch beyond its bounds, while within its walls, certain objects begin to display strange signs of life. Young Clod Iremonger is on the cusp of being \"trousered\" and betrothed (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. Mystery, romance and the perils of the Heaps await! Gorgeously and ghoulishly illustrated by the author, the novel is peopled with unforgettable characters'anxious, animal-loving Tummis with his pet seagull, menacing cousin Moorcus, dreadful Aunt Rosamud and more. As Carey writes, \"Every life is thick with rubbish, but the Iremongers did it with a difference . . .\""@en . . "Heap House" . . "Heap House"@en . "\"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives 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."@en . "Juvenile works"@en . . . . . . . "Young adult works"@en . . . "Heap house"@en . . . . . "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." . "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."@en . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . "Fantasy fiction"@en . "Fantasy fiction" . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . "Young adult fiction"@en . . . . . "I segreti di Heap House" . . . "Orphans Fiction." . . "Family secrets." . . "Dwellings Juvenile fiction." . . "Dwellings." . . . . "Families Fiction." . . "Orphans." . . "Eccentrics and eccentricities." . . "Orphans Juvenile fiction." . . "London (England)" . . "Children's stories." . . "JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General." . . "Family secrets Juvenile fiction." . . "England" . . "Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction." . . "Dwellings Fiction." . .