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 104
... hard to know where to turn . His mother sympathized with his aspirations , and maybe she would wear his father down in time . But how much time was there ? How late could one wait to apply for a university place ? Joe Barron did not ...
... hard to know where to turn . His mother sympathized with his aspirations , and maybe she would wear his father down in time . But how much time was there ? How late could one wait to apply for a university place ? Joe Barron did not ...
Page 173
... hard - working , achieving , upwardly mobile little brats , for they had taken in ambition with their mother's breast - destroying milk . But they had also imbibed despair . Robert , being a boy , decided early in his career , at about ...
... hard - working , achieving , upwardly mobile little brats , for they had taken in ambition with their mother's breast - destroying milk . But they had also imbibed despair . Robert , being a boy , decided early in his career , at about ...
Page 224
... hard and potentially deadly choices , and had worked hard all her life , and now the most gifted and beautiful of all her sons had gone before her . Tributes were paid to Eva that day , and rightly . It is not good to lose a child ...
... hard and potentially deadly choices , and had worked hard all her life , and now the most gifted and beautiful of all her sons had gone before her . Tributes were paid to Eva that day , and rightly . It is not good to lose a child ...
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