A house called Awful End

By Philip Ardagh

Subjects: Dickens, eddie (fictitious character), fiction, Humorous stories, Great-aunts, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Great-uncles, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.