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The peppered moth

Drabble, Margaret, 1939-2022
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One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and worked, to explore her own past. Decades before, in the early twentieth century, Bessie Bawtry also ponders her place in the world. A child of unusual determination and precocious intelligence, she longs for the day she will eventually escape the working-class life her ancestor would never have dreamt of leaving.
Main title:
The peppered moth / Margaret Drabble.
Author:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2022.
Collation:
416 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: London: Viking, 2000.
ISBN:
9781838857165 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914G
LC class:
PR6054.R25
Language:
English
BRN:
3089746
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