![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, these two outcasts carve out a life - saving one another in the process. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. This is the creature that saved her from the fire. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature - a golem - made from ash and coal. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. With her wits and will, she's managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived - and a girl. The work was hard, thankless, and brutally dangerous. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award." ( AudioFile magazine) For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys" - orphans owned by chimney sweeps - to clean flues and protect homes from fire. Coomes's voice and Auxier's prose combine to create an immersive experience. Coomes's monster's squeaky voice is jarring at first, but listeners will quickly discover that it fits his kind and childlike personality. Listeners meet Nan Sparrow, the legendary climber a malevolent master a soft-spoken Jewish immigrant a gentle chimney sweep and Charlie - Nan's 'monster'. Narrator Sarah Coomes creates a variety of voices for the chimney sweeps - Cockney climbing kids who are the featured characters. ![]() "This atmospheric work of historical fiction and magical realism takes place in nineteenth-century London. ![]()
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