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 171
... tried to improve her lot as fast as he could . He moved her out of the cosy little council house , where little ... tried , poor chap , he tried . And the harder he tried , the angrier she became . Pretty Bessie Bawtry had lost her ...
... tried to improve her lot as fast as he could . He moved her out of the cosy little council house , where little ... tried , poor chap , he tried . And the harder he tried , the angrier she became . Pretty Bessie Bawtry had lost her ...
Page 266
... tried hard enough . Her last night thoughts are of Nick's eldest daughter , Faro . If Chrissie knew how to pray , she ... trying to avoid one . She is straining at the leash , as usual . Seb is her clog and her dependant and she is sick ...
... tried hard enough . Her last night thoughts are of Nick's eldest daughter , Faro . If Chrissie knew how to pray , she ... trying to avoid one . She is straining at the leash , as usual . Seb is her clog and her dependant and she is sick ...
Page 313
... trying to look grateful and trying to be good . The time for all of that was past . Arrival was an unnecessary triviality . Bessie gazed and gazed at the slow and stately image of movement . The heavy vessel cleaved through the dense ...
... trying to look grateful and trying to be good . The time for all of that was past . Arrival was an unnecessary triviality . Bessie gazed and gazed at the slow and stately image of movement . The heavy vessel cleaved through the dense ...
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