Laura’s mother was a leading environmentalist fund-raiser and was shrill in her defense of the lowliest living creatures. She and Norton had divorced when Laura was ten, even though Norton hadn’t wanted to. The reasons had been of the banal we’re-growing-in-different-directions type, but Laura had always blamed it on her father’s financial greed.
Lauras mor var en førende miljøforkæmper fundraiser og var skingrende i hendes forsvar af de lowliest levende væsener. Hun og Norton havde skilt, da Laura var ti, selvom Norton ikke havde villet. Årsagerne havde været af den banale we're voksende-i-forskellige-retninger type, men Laura havde altid skylden på sin fars økonomiske grådighed.