Chapter Four
Laura Scott’s parents lived in an expensive part of Elmhurst. Between Dedman Wood and Elmhurst Golf Club it was very exclusive, with each house built widely spaced from his neighbour. It was a good bit out from the town, of course, as it needed to be with its acreage. Certainly, there was no way the architects could have built the development nearer the town, with its hugger-mugger and cheek by jowl building styles of earlier centuries, there was simply no room for such spacious properties.
And after a period in the sixties when they’d let redevelopers have their heads, the council had soon reasserted themselves. Elmhurst had got its act together far more promptly than many other towns, and soon builders had to meet very strict guidelines which had meant that the get-rich-qu
