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 145
... taken its eminent title successfully downmarket and was thriving on a mixture of mildly sensationalized stories and serious reportage . It had a lot of brightly coloured pictures and very large headlines . It was doing very well . The ...
... taken its eminent title successfully downmarket and was thriving on a mixture of mildly sensationalized stories and serious reportage . It had a lot of brightly coloured pictures and very large headlines . It was doing very well . The ...
Page 380
... taken some time to retrieve . Peter apologized for unburdening himself to a stranger , but he felt that Faro , because of her own family history , would understand . Anna , he wrote , had become obsessed by the history of the holocaust ...
... taken some time to retrieve . Peter apologized for unburdening himself to a stranger , but he felt that Faro , because of her own family history , would understand . Anna , he wrote , had become obsessed by the history of the holocaust ...
Page 388
... taken on Grandma Barron's wedding day , for Bessie is wearing her wedding dress , and Dora is playing bridesmaid . They are sitting in a backyard on a bench next to what is clearly an outdoor privy . It must have been taken at Slotton ...
... taken on Grandma Barron's wedding day , for Bessie is wearing her wedding dress , and Dora is playing bridesmaid . They are sitting in a backyard on a bench next to what is clearly an outdoor privy . It must have been taken at Slotton ...
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