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 191
... asked to be born . Bessie nearly kept her vow not to set foot in South Yorkshire again . In the fifties , she had managed to escape Yorkshire altogether , for when Robert was eighteen and Chrissie fifteen Joe Barron took silk , and as a ...
... asked to be born . Bessie nearly kept her vow not to set foot in South Yorkshire again . In the fifties , she had managed to escape Yorkshire altogether , for when Robert was eighteen and Chrissie fifteen Joe Barron took silk , and as a ...
Page 316
... asked all the right questions and said he would fly out at once to meet her at the docks if she wanted him . Was Chrissie all right ? Yes , of course she was , she said . She wasn't even shocked . It had all happened too smoothly for ...
... asked all the right questions and said he would fly out at once to meet her at the docks if she wanted him . Was Chrissie all right ? Yes , of course she was , she said . She wasn't even shocked . It had all happened too smoothly for ...
Page 386
... asked her to look for her gold bracelet , her father's silver watch and her mother's engagement ring . So far , Faro has not discovered them . She will have one more look , in Auntie Dora's bedroom . She climbs the narrow stair- case ...
... asked her to look for her gold bracelet , her father's silver watch and her mother's engagement ring . So far , Faro has not discovered them . She will have one more look , in Auntie Dora's bedroom . She climbs the narrow stair- case ...
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