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 45
... Cotterhall , of course , and will remain there for decades to come . And it is towards Laburnum House , the home of the Barron family , that Ada and Bessie now make their way , not as shy schoolgirls , but as invited guests . Mrs Barron ...
... Cotterhall , of course , and will remain there for decades to come . And it is towards Laburnum House , the home of the Barron family , that Ada and Bessie now make their way , not as shy schoolgirls , but as invited guests . Mrs Barron ...
Page 183
... Cotterhall , for the Barron grandparents are dead , and some kind of family feud has divided the rest of the Barrons . Auntie Dora never goes to Cotterhall . ( Many years later , Dora will say to her great - niece Faro , ' We never had ...
... Cotterhall , for the Barron grandparents are dead , and some kind of family feud has divided the rest of the Barrons . Auntie Dora never goes to Cotterhall . ( Many years later , Dora will say to her great - niece Faro , ' We never had ...
Page 358
... Cotterhall Man , as were Ellen Bawtry , Bessie Barron and Chrissie Sinclair before her . The sleeping prince in his glass coffin is their ancestor . Her genes had dwelled in Hammervale since the end of the Ice Age . ' Good God , ' says ...
... Cotterhall Man , as were Ellen Bawtry , Bessie Barron and Chrissie Sinclair before her . The sleeping prince in his glass coffin is their ancestor . Her genes had dwelled in Hammervale since the end of the Ice Age . ' Good God , ' says ...
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