{"product_id":"iremonger-heap-house","title":"Iremonger: Heap House","description":"'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com  'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times 'Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should be' - Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013 'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis magazine  The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it.  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 Tummis's 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 Clod's world.","brand":"Hot Key Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40696404082773,"sku":"9781471401572N","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/5c8e578b-4f6e-4651-9528-736ecffbacfa.jpg?v=1695832514","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/iremonger-heap-house","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}