A House Called Awful End (Eddie Dickens Trilogy)

A House Called Awful End (Eddie Dickens Trilogy) by Ardagh, Philip. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780439537599.

Prepare for gales of laughter and showers of clever merriment as this "scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python" (The Guardian) grandly appears in paperback. When both of Eddies parents catch a diseas that makes them turn yellow, , its agreed he should go away and stay wioth relatives at their house, Awful End. Alas for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud - and the journey to Awful End will take him to everywhere from St. Horrids Hone for Grateful Orphans to an audience with The Empress of All China. They never actually make it to Awful End, but thats okay. The hilarious, nefarious, precarious journey is well worth its weight in wonderful and wacky words.