Nan, now an orphan and chimney sweep in Victorian England, tells her own stories, about “magic bookshops, talking fruit trees, and blind thieves who could open any lock.”įans of the Regent Square resident's books will recognize that Auxier is referencing his first three novels – Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, The Night Gardener, and Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes – in that passage.īut there's something else in that section related to Auxier's innate anxiety about being the father of three girls between the ages of 2 and 6. Early in Jonathan Auxier's new young adult novel, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster, protagonist Nan thinks about the tales her father, named Sweep, used to tell her.
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