Questa trilogia immerge i lettori in un mondo bizzarro dominato da montagne di oggetti scartati e abitato da una particolare famiglia legata da segreti. A ogni membro viene dato un oggetto unico alla nascita, dal quale non deve mai separarsi, ma uno possiede la rara capacità di sentire questi oggetti parlare. Mentre le ombre del passato si agitano e i misteri che tengono unito il loro strano mondo iniziano a svelarsi, un pericolo imminente minaccia di consumarli. È un racconto avvincente di famiglia, cose dimenticate e le oscure verità nascoste nei rifiuti della storia.
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 destory Clod's world.
Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and the real people into objects.Abandoned in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger, more animal than human. She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and 'lost'. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down.But all around the city, things, everyday things, are twitching into life...
The extraordinary climax to the gothic Iremonger trilogy.