Astonishing! So peculiar, so magical that it bears comparison to The Hobbit or The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Golden Compass or the Green Knowe books. Kelly Link, award-winning author of Magic for Beginners A 2014 New York Times Notable Book! A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editors Pick! A Publishers Weekly Indie Pick Big Books from Small Presses! Welcome to Heap House, the sprawling, slipshod maze of a mansion, built on the Heaps, a collection of forgotten trash and curios. Young Clod Iremonger and his eccentric family, the kings of mildew, moguls of mold, made their fortune from this collected detritus. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of the birth object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of allhis gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering.
