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 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 peop...(展开全部)

爱德华·凯瑞，英国剧作家、小说家、插画家，曾在各国剧场工作。著有《望楼馆追想》《Alva & Irva》《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》（本书为《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》第二部）等，并亲手绘制插图。其中《望楼馆追想》获得IMPAC都柏林文学奖提名。目前，凯瑞所有小说皆已被译为多国语言出版，其 童话般的故事风格广受全世界读者喜爱。