Silver Birch Hill is the kind of exclusive community you will find within a comfortable limousine ride in any large American city. Very private people who want to be sealed into a private world. Huge estates, accumulated wealth, frozen attitudes about life that go back generations. Great for the people who like think they're the only people, but not so wonderful for little girls of ten, full of curiosity and excitement about life, like Felicity dePugh-Miller, who may never know how lucky she is, that she has Ellen Gardner in her life, and her lovely grandfather, who she calls Mr Charles...