Eddie Dickens is a character from a series of books written by the children's author Philip Ardagh.
Ardagh originally created Eddie Dickens in letters written to his nephew Ben.
Eddie goes to live with his great aunt and great uncle because his parents catch a fever "that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of old hot water bottles".
[9] Eddie's Mother is known as Mrs Dickens though in Final Curtain we discover her first name is Florinda.
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy has a newly published special 20th anniversary edition.