The Peppered MothA portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. |
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Page 179
... Breaseborough was the premise of their birth and being . Joe - and - Bessie were inconceivable , to them , as a married couple in Cotterhall or Breaseborough . Chrissie and Robert had been brought up to regard Breaseborough as a foreign ...
... Breaseborough was the premise of their birth and being . Joe - and - Bessie were inconceivable , to them , as a married couple in Cotterhall or Breaseborough . Chrissie and Robert had been brought up to regard Breaseborough as a foreign ...
Page 348
... Breaseborough . There is not much . Breaseborough has its own Knowhere Guide on the Internet , constructed by rueful and self - deprecating cynics . It declares that whereas Breaseborough once had three cinemas , it now has none , and ...
... Breaseborough . There is not much . Breaseborough has its own Knowhere Guide on the Internet , constructed by rueful and self - deprecating cynics . It declares that whereas Breaseborough once had three cinemas , it now has none , and ...
Page 348
... Breaseborough . There is not much . Breaseborough has its own Knowhere Guide on the Internet , constructed by rueful and self - deprecating cynics . It declares that whereas Breaseborough once had three cinemas , it now has none , and ...
... Breaseborough . There is not much . Breaseborough has its own Knowhere Guide on the Internet , constructed by rueful and self - deprecating cynics . It declares that whereas Breaseborough once had three cinemas , it now has none , and ...
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