"We're going to a fine place," Idie told Homer to console him, "with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds." Idie Grace is 12 when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from gray old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber from tree to tree. As a lady of property, Idie can do as she pleases, so she fills the house with exotic animals, keeps her beloved horse in the hallway, and carries a grumpy,...