The white house, facing the wrong way, stands high on a hill. For 150 years it has been lived in by an array of characters. Two old sisters who learned to read in exchange for teaching sewing, a little girl who explored a magical path, a young man who went to the First World War and a hard bitten submariner who came back from the second, a young engineer who went to America for two years and stayed there for over forty, but for whom this house...