Unlike the rest of her family, Pearl Wolfbane is neat and tidy and is delighted to note that everyone else in Primrose Drive - the street into which her unconventional family has just moved - is normal, too When the Wolfbanes' neighbours, the Rigid-Smythes, return home a few days later, Dudley Rigid-Smythe is horrified He'd hoped to buy No 34 and turn it into flats, but that's impossible now that it looks like a film-set of a second-rate horror movie The two families are set for a collision course, and each of the daughters is much better suited to living in the other's house