Edward Carey is the author and illustrator of two novels for adults, Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva, which was longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award. The Iremonger Trilogy is his first work for young readers. Born in England, he now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two children, where he wrote the Iremonger Trilogy because he missed feeling cold and gloomy.
Carey's Heap House is blanketed in the delicious gray gloom of his
native England ...Apt comparisons will be drawn to Charles Dickens,
Lemony Snicket, and Edward Gorey. Fans of creepy and macabre
literature will be drawn to Carey's illustrations, and fans of
brave and whimsical literature will love his wordplay and his
fantastical world.
Edward Carey's new novel Heap House is his first for younger
readers; it's also a magnificently creepy work regardless of what
age you are when you encounter it.
Full of strange magic, sly humor, and odd, melancholy characters,
this trilogy opener, peppered with portraits illustrated by Carey
in a style reminiscent of Peake's own, should appeal to ambitious
readers seeking richly imagined and more-than-a-little-sinister
fantasy.
Heap House--the first in a trilogy set in Victorian England--is a
witty, fantastical, sometimes terrifying world, like the best kind
of fairy tales. And like many fairy tales, it's suitable for
children as well as adults.--Austin American-Statesman
The first in a deliciously macabre trilogy . . . channels Dickens
crossed with LemonySnicket. . . . a Gothic tale in turns witty,
sweet, thoughtful and thrilling--but always off-kilter--and penned
with gorgeous, loopy prose. Suspense and horror gradually
accumulate into an avalanche of a climax, leading to the most
precipitous of cliffhangers... Magnificently creepy.
What an astonishing book this is! A novel for children so good, so
peculiar, somagical that it bears comparison to classics like The
Hobbit or The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Golden Compass or the
Green Knowe books. That is to say, adults should read it too, in
order to be given the uncanny, wrenching sensation of visiting a
new and strange place--and finding a home there.--Kelly Link,
award-winning author of Magic for Beginners
Whimsically gothic...
Heap House is delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising,
philosophical, everything that an novel for children should
be.--Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The
Luminaries
Heap House is weird, yes. Spectacularly so.--Pseudonymous Bosch
Heap House torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London
into a singularly jaunty and creepy tale of agreeable
misfits.--Gregory Maguire, best-selling author of Wicked
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