"Amber Lee Dodd writes with tenderness and thunder, and her
storytelling is a bolt of brilliance." Kiran Millwood
Hargrave
The Bradley family are constantly escaping from a centuries old
curse which means that every home they ever live in is destroyed
by a typhoon or flash flood that affects no other houses on the
street, or they are chased out of town by a flock of persistent
birds. They have just moved to their thirteenth house and Noah wants
this one to work out - he's got some good friends at school and
desperately wants himself and his deaf brother Billy to put down
roots. But the curse returns - so he must find a way to break
it.