Life isn't always fun; sometimes rotten things happen, and then how do you cope? For Alana it's the possibility of going blind. For Tommy it's having no father and a mother who's too spaced out to care. And for Amira it is the struggle to make a new life in a land where you don't even speak the language.
Janice Marriott sets her story in an isolated New Zealand community on an estuary. There's lots of information about birds and flying - information which in the end becomes a matter of life and death.
