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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Shall she ring her friend Cath ? Shall she try yet again to contact Steve Nieman at the Earth Project ? She really needs to speak to Steve Nieman about his skeleton discovery . She ought to be getting on with her Prometheus article ...
Shall she ring her friend Cath ? Shall she try yet again to contact Steve Nieman at the Earth Project ? She really needs to speak to Steve Nieman about his skeleton discovery . She ought to be getting on with her Prometheus article ...
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She could ring Faro , and tell her the whole story . She could ring Nick Gaulden , and tell him his first mother - in - law was dead . Would this be the right moment to reopen the old wounds ? No , she would not ring Nick Gaulden .
She could ring Faro , and tell her the whole story . She could ring Nick Gaulden , and tell him his first mother - in - law was dead . Would this be the right moment to reopen the old wounds ? No , she would not ring Nick Gaulden .
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The sixpence is discoloured . Faro has never seen a farthing before , but the sixpence reminds her of something . She can't think what . She finds the gold chain , and the engagement ring . The ring is a clear and eloquent candidate for ...
The sixpence is discoloured . Faro has never seen a farthing before , but the sixpence reminds her of something . She can't think what . She finds the gold chain , and the engagement ring . The ring is a clear and eloquent candidate for ...
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User Review - suesbooks - LibraryThingThe 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 - LibraryThingI 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
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Peppered Moth |
| Author | Margaret Drabble |
| Publisher | Viking, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 6, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0670894001, 9780670894000 |
| Length | 391 pages |
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