The Bones in the Attic (2002)
“Thinking it over, and remembering that this was the second time in a few days that he had done that, he would have justified it by saying that his Volvo was old, a machine for transporting children and dog, and that if the residents of the two habitations in question had looked out their windows, they would have decided in advance that its driver was not worth talking to. He was conscious of being in the sort of area where people might do just that.The houses on Chalcott Rise (which did actuall...y rise) had been built, judging by appearances, for the at least comfortably well-heeled. Like the Otley Road house they were thirties-spacious, with similar gently curved bows and fresh-painted white plaster. Presumably it was a style Pemberton felt at home in—more airy, more cosmopolitan than the grimmer air of the stone terraces in Houghton Avenue. The garden, when he got to number 27, wascustom-gardened—everything cut back neatly, everything in place, with wood chips to keep down the weeds.MoreLess
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