A series of novels (''Stoneheart'', ''Ironhand'', and ''Silvertongue'') written by Charlie Fletcher.

A city has many lives and many layers. [[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] has more than most. Not all layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living.

Twelve-year-old [[FishOutOfWater George Chapman]] is about to learn this the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakens an ancient power—a power that has been dormant for centuries—and the results are instant and terrifying. A stone pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George with unbridled fury. He runs for his life, but it seems that no one can see what he's fleeing. No one except [[LittleMissSnarker Edie]], who is also trapped in this strange world because of her own inexplicable powers.

Now that George has disturbed the fragile truce between the warring statues of London, he is forced into a race for survival where nothing is what it seems, and it's never clear [[FriendOrFoe whom to trust]].

And this is just the beginning, as the statues of London awake...

Has a [[Characters/TheStoneheartTrilogy character sheet]].
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!Tropes for ''Stoneheart'' include:

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[spoiler:The Gunner risks breaking his oath to the Walker in order]] to rescue Edie [[spoiler:from the Minotaur by saving one last bullet]] in spite of promising [[spoiler:to fight the Minotaur weaponless.]]
* BreakingTheFellowship: In the end of ''Stoneheart'', [[spoiler:the Gunner]] is taken by the Walker, leaving [[spoiler:George and Edie]] to rescue [[spoiler:him]].
* BoyMeetsGirl: George meets Edie.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon
* {{Cliffhanger}}
* CrypticConversation: The Gunner usually hides things from George and/or Edie. The Walker lampshades this quite a few times.
* DeanBitterman / SadistTeacher: Killingbeck. Just his ''[[MeaningfulName name]]'' pretty much sums him up.
* DisappearedDad: George's father. Also, Edie's father. [[spoiler: In the third book, they're revealed to be the [[LongLostRelative half-siblings]]]]
* DistressedDamsel: When Edie gets captured by [[spoiler:the Minotaur]].
* DontYouDarePityMe: Edie has this emotion strongly enough to slap George when he tries to apologize to her.
-->'''George:''' Look, I'm sorry— [''gets slapped by Edie''] What the... Why did you...?\\
'''Edie:''' Don't be sorry for me. Don't treat me like I'm soft. And don't like me.
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: Because the regular {{Muggles}} can't see what they wouldn't normally see, anything out of the ordinary they may see is totally ignored.
* FirstNameBasis: [[spoiler:The Gunner]] makes a PetTheDog moment when he begins to call Edie by name.
-->'''[[spoiler:The Gunner]]:''' Right. Follow me. And, Edie--try not to get lost, eh?\\
'''George:''' [''notices Edie grinning''] What?\\
'''Edie:''' Edie. He called me Edie. [''tries to stop grinning and blushes instead'']
-->'''George:''' Well, it's your name, isn't it?
-->'''Edie:''' He usually calls me 'that glint' or 'her.'
-->'''George:''' Well, you grow on people.
* FishOutOfWater / NaiveNewcomer: George.
* FreudianTrio: Arguably -- George (Superego), Edie (Id), and the Gunner (Ego).
* IChooseToStay: In the end of ''Stoneheart'', [[spoiler:George chooses to not return the dragon head and]] instead stay in [[spoiler:the "un-London" where living statues can be seen so that Edie won't be alone]].
* InvisibleToNormals: The living statues -- the spits and taints. Oh, and the Walker.
* IronicEcho:
-->'''Edie:''' Listen, you idiot, we--\\
'''George:''' Hey, you're the one who said there's no 'we'! I'm agreeing, you're right, okay? I'm just not doing this anymore.\\
[''...'']\\
-->'''George:''' Where are we going? Edie, where are we going?
-->'''Edie:''' It's 'we' now, is it?
* KidHero: George and Edie.
* MeaningfulName: George and his relation with the Temple Bar Dragon echoes the legend of Myth/SaintGeorge.
* TheMentor: The Gunner towards George and later Edie.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: George feels extreme guilt that he fought with his father the last time he saw him, before his father [[spoiler:died in a car crash.]] George never got the chance to apologize. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Ever]].
* OneGenderSchool: George goes to an all-boys' school.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:The Walker]]'s deal to [[spoiler:the Gunner]] -- go into battle with no weapons at all... or sealing [[spoiler:Edie]] to a terrible fate.
-->'''[[spoiler:The Walker]]:''' [[spoiler:Give me the weapon or the bullets, or by the name of the hand that made you I will let the Bull do what he will with the girl-child--boy or no boy!]]
* SayMyName:
-->'''George:''' EDIE!
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Dictionary all the way.
* SequelHook
* ShipTease: It's difficult to say because there is no pairing in the first book, but [[BoyMeetsGirl George and Edie]] can easily be paired up because they're both [[PuppyLove twelve]]. Even one of the Sphinx lampshades this.
-->'''Sphinx:''' Then you won't get an answer; and you can go away and take your glint with you.
-->'''George:''' She's not ''my'' glint.
-->'''Sphinx:''' You can take her anyway.
** And the Walker too.
-->'''The Walker:''' How very sickening. You found yourself your own little Stone Heart.
** The same could even be said about [[BodyguardCrush Edie and the Gunner]], though it's very unlikely. [[spoiler:But Edie seems particularily happy around the Gunner later into the story, even smiling at him (an unfamiliar gesture on Edie that even George notices), and the Gunner is quite protective of her, even risking his oath with the Walker to save Edie from the Minotaur.]]
** This [[ShipSinking ship is squarely sunk]] when [[spoiler: George and Edie are revealed to be half-siblings in the third book]]
*** Although that [[IncestYayShipping won't stop some people...]]
* ShoutOut: In a memory recollected by George, his father had belched following a meal and said, [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}} "Better out than in."]]
* TrueCompanions: Slowly but ever surely George, Edie, and the Gunner are forming this.
* [[WhenYouComingHomeDad When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: George's mother.
* LastOfHisKind: Edie to the Glints. [[FantasticRacism Not that anyone's complaining...]]
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!Tropes for ''Ironhand'' include:

* {{Cliffhanger}}
* SequelHook
* DisneyVillainDeath: Edie tells George about when [[spoiler:her stepfather tried to kill her on the beach. Edie hit her stepfather hard with a pebble, sending him falling into a chasm and to his doom]].
* ForTheEvulz: The [[BigBad Walker]] admits to [[spoiler:committing mass genocide against the Glints]]. Why? Because [[WhoWantsToLiveForever being immortal is boring]] and he needed something to do.
* ThePowerOfLove: Arguably, this is what [[spoiler: brings Edie back from the dead]]
* EyeScream: There's two instances.
** Edie to the [[spoiler: Walker]]. It [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heals almost instantly]], of course, but he is now forever doomed to walk the earth with only one eye, which really, really pisses him off.
** Also, the Walker's assistant/slave Glint, who ''sewed her eyes shut'' so that she wouldn't have to glint the horrible things that have happened in his house anymore.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The Gunner to the Walker after the former finds out that the latter has [[spoiler: single-handedly wiped out an entire race]]. Made especially ironic by the Gunner's [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racism]] in the first book.
* HeelFaceTurn: Spout, the gargoyle
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Little Tragedy]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: In ''Stoneheart'', the Gunner blasted Spout the gargoyle to kingdom come. In ''Ironhand'', he's somehow alive again with no explanation whatsoever as to how he came back.
* YouCantFightFate: Played Straight with [[spoiler: Edie's death]].
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[[folder: "You can't change the past, even if it hasn't happened yet" ]]

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!Tropes for ''Silvertongue'' include:
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted with Edie's mother as she was not a villain in any way. In an attempt to save her daughter from The [[BigBad Walker]], she throws herself at him, causing both of them to fall off the roof of a tall building. [[spoiler:While The Walker survives the fall due to his {{immortality}}, Edie's mother falls to her death]].
* HellishHorse: the Night Mare
* OddCouple The Clocker, who talks with as few words as possible, and [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Dictionary]].
* PhantomZone
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: The [[BigBad Walker's]]]] fate.
* TimeStandsStill: At the [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteenth hour]].
* HopeSpot: Edie's mother's heart stone is still alight, which suggests that she might still be alive. [[spoiler: She's not.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Edie's backstory is pretty much one of these.
** To elaborate, [[spoiler: Edie's mother, a recovering alcoholic, was driven completely off the deep end when her heart stone was stolen by the Walker in a scene that just screams attempted rape. Her sanity then proceeds to gradually unravel until, finally, she tries to kill Edie's stepfather with a kitchen appliance. This results in her being committed to an insane asylum where she spends the rest of her life, leaving Edie alone with her alcoholic stepfather. The next Edie hears of her is when her stepfather informs Edie that her mother has committed suicide (in actuality, she jumped off the roof to keep the Walker from finding Edie). It is then that Edie glints the aforementioned attempted rape scene, and, horrified that her stepfather simply sat back and smiled throughout the entire thing, runs away. This prompts her stepfather to run after her ''with a knife'', smiling and talking about how they ought to head back to the house together. When he finally catches up to her, Edie hits him over the head with a rock, knocking him into a quarry and killing him. She then runs away to London, where she spends the period before the story hopping between youth hostels and believing she's insane. Before she meets George, a Londoner who can also see the moving statues, and he promptly tells her to bugger off. And then she dies. And that's ''on top of'' her inherent power that shows her horrible flashbacks of the past whenever she touches a rock.]]
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