The Peppered Moth

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Viking, 2000 - Bawtry family (Fictitious characters) - 391 pages
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A 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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It is not clear why they married at all . But they did . - If this story were merely a fiction , it would be possible to fill in these gaps with plausible incidents , but the narrator here has to admit to considerable difficulty ...
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Joe did not foresee it , or he would not have married her . Nobody warned him . We are left with the facts , and they are sparse . Joe Barron and Bessie Bawtry married , in St Andrews Church in Brease- borough , with Dora and Ivy as ...
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Had Bessie ever been sweet , in those long - ago years before she married Joe and bore him two children ? Again and again , Chrissie has asked herself this question . ' She's not the sweet- heart that she used to be .

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The writing was much better than the content, but even that aspect got tiring with the numerous repetitions. The characters of the 4 generations were somewhat interesting, but I did not care much for ... Read full review

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User Review  - IonaS - LibraryThing

I found this book too drab and unexciting to be able to get into. I never got to the moth bit and hardly know what the book is really about though it seems to tell the tale of a little girl called ... Read full review

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
5
Section 3
44
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Margaret Drabble was born on June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, England. She attended The Mount School in York and Newnham College, Cambridge University. After graduation, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford during which time she understudied for Vanessa Redgrave. She is a novelist, critic, and the editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her works include A Summer Bird Cage; The Millstone, which won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1966; Jerusalem the Golden, which won James Tait Black Prize in 1967; and The Witch of Exmoor. She also received the E. M. Forster award and was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Fellowship in the 1960s and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980.

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TitleThe Peppered Moth
AuthorMargaret Drabble
PublisherViking, 2000
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 6, 2008
ISBN0670894001, 9780670894000
Length391 pages
  
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