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 143
... women careered along . Catalytic converters , government regulations , the Kyoto agreement , electric trams . They knew their stuff . Women did , these days , didn't they ? It was a good time to be alive , for a woman like Faro ...
... women careered along . Catalytic converters , government regulations , the Kyoto agreement , electric trams . They knew their stuff . Women did , these days , didn't they ? It was a good time to be alive , for a woman like Faro ...
Page 168
... women a great opportunity of realizing some of our dreams of a better way of living . Many women fail to see the connection between politics and everyday life , and they have paid dearly for their blindness in the last few years . There ...
... women a great opportunity of realizing some of our dreams of a better way of living . Many women fail to see the connection between politics and everyday life , and they have paid dearly for their blindness in the last few years . There ...
Page 235
... Women weren't suppose to think this kind of thing about other women these days , Chrissie knew . Everything had changed since she was a girl . Women good , men bad . That's how the bleating went nowadays . And in the case of Nick ...
... Women weren't suppose to think this kind of thing about other women these days , Chrissie knew . Everything had changed since she was a girl . Women good , men bad . That's how the bleating went nowadays . And in the case of Nick ...
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