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 149
... sure if they did manage it . My mother goes on about how they didn't manage it . I used to take it for granted that they lived in Surrey . But now it seems a mystery . And as for my parents how they got together , God alone knows ...
... sure if they did manage it . My mother goes on about how they didn't manage it . I used to take it for granted that they lived in Surrey . But now it seems a mystery . And as for my parents how they got together , God alone knows ...
Page 248
... sure , poor thing , that she was not second best . Chrissie had read the sagas and studied the strange , elliptical story of Sigmundur's rise and fall . Sigmundur was credited with having introduced Christianity to the Faeroes , at the ...
... sure , poor thing , that she was not second best . Chrissie had read the sagas and studied the strange , elliptical story of Sigmundur's rise and fall . Sigmundur was credited with having introduced Christianity to the Faeroes , at the ...
Page 368
... sure the cat is OK and pick up a dressing - gown and a few toiletries . Dora seems very set on being reunited with her own hairbrush , which must be good sign . On the other hand she is not all that pleased to find Faro already has a ...
... sure the cat is OK and pick up a dressing - gown and a few toiletries . Dora seems very set on being reunited with her own hairbrush , which must be good sign . On the other hand she is not all that pleased to find Faro already has a ...
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