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 99
... round the neigh- bourhood , and mocked . But they were noticed . And Gertrude Wadsworth , who knew and liked Edith , was loyal to Edith , and therefore Sylvia Heald was loyal to Edith , and tried to pass on her loyalty to Bessie Bawtry ...
... round the neigh- bourhood , and mocked . But they were noticed . And Gertrude Wadsworth , who knew and liked Edith , was loyal to Edith , and therefore Sylvia Heald was loyal to Edith , and tried to pass on her loyalty to Bessie Bawtry ...
Page 100
... round and round unwanted in her head . Bessie lived again and again through those moments of humiliation - the endless drive lead- ing onwards and upwards , the snarling stone monsters on the gateposts warning her to keep out , the ...
... round and round unwanted in her head . Bessie lived again and again through those moments of humiliation - the endless drive lead- ing onwards and upwards , the snarling stone monsters on the gateposts warning her to keep out , the ...
Page 388
... round solid - silver watch is more robust . It has a heavy silver chain attached to it . Its face displays roman numerals , in a plain handsome black script , on a white ground . Faro manages to prise open the complicated layers of its ...
... round solid - silver watch is more robust . It has a heavy silver chain attached to it . Its face displays roman numerals , in a plain handsome black script , on a white ground . Faro manages to prise open the complicated layers of its ...
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