Fever Crumb is an intelligent 14-year-old girl with different coloured eyes and an unknown background. Found as a baby in a basket, she is brought up by the Order of Engineers in the vast head of a toppled statue of Godshawk, the overthrown leader of London.

 

Phillip Reeve describes the world in which Fever lives so well and makes many unbelievable things happen that actually seem real and shockingly believable.

 

I enjoyed Phillip Reeves's play on words with some of London's place names such as Hampstead Heath, Eefrow and Pickled Eel Circus. 

 

I think that this book certainly deserves to have been chosen for the Carnegie shortlist and is most certainly a great read.