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 250
... dark and the evenings long , though in summer a pale endless light played on the cliffs and the turf and the seething waters . Professor Arkwright hoped to find the head- less body of Sigmundur , or the foundations of his church , or ...
... dark and the evenings long , though in summer a pale endless light played on the cliffs and the turf and the seething waters . Professor Arkwright hoped to find the head- less body of Sigmundur , or the foundations of his church , or ...
Page 266
... dark . Faro turns naturally to the light , but he prefers the dark . It was a big mistake , getting involved with him in the first place . On the first post - Breaseborough evening she'd gone round to his place and tried to jolly 266.
... dark . Faro turns naturally to the light , but he prefers the dark . It was a big mistake , getting involved with him in the first place . On the first post - Breaseborough evening she'd gone round to his place and tried to jolly 266.
Page 320
... dark wood and the cracked earth , and of the lifeless shore beyond all singing . This was the shore that Bessie ... Darkness and Jane Eyre a cheery duet , he had drily observed . But he had long given up his old chant of ' If with all ...
... dark wood and the cracked earth , and of the lifeless shore beyond all singing . This was the shore that Bessie ... Darkness and Jane Eyre a cheery duet , he had drily observed . But he had long given up his old chant of ' If with all ...
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