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 221
... Nick's sexual Odyssey as she believed Nick to have been in her own . Serafina had appeared , held court and moved on , massively unscathed . Fiona , the only other legal wife , was more of a mystery . She had been married for her money ...
... Nick's sexual Odyssey as she believed Nick to have been in her own . Serafina had appeared , held court and moved on , massively unscathed . Fiona , the only other legal wife , was more of a mystery . She had been married for her money ...
Page 235
... Nick , he was not respectable . And sometimes she forgot that she herself was Faro's mother . Faro seemed such a ... Nick Gaulden you could see there was something in it . He had been a bit of a traitor . On the other hand , none of his ...
... Nick , he was not respectable . And sometimes she forgot that she herself was Faro's mother . Faro seemed such a ... Nick Gaulden you could see there was something in it . He had been a bit of a traitor . On the other hand , none of his ...
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... Nick Gaulden had always been willing to offer him a drink , a joint , a seat by the fire . Eric Mendelsson had hung on , through the changing panorama of Nick's women : faithful , unrejected , like a black dog , like a familiar devil ...
... Nick Gaulden had always been willing to offer him a drink , a joint , a seat by the fire . Eric Mendelsson had hung on , through the changing panorama of Nick's women : faithful , unrejected , like a black dog , like a familiar devil ...
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