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.
The Peppered Moth explores the way we are shaped by our environment
and ancestry, told with elegant prose, wry humour and captivating
storytelling, through the story of one family across generations
through the twentieth century. 'Margaret Drabble is writing, not
about an individual, but about a generation, or two, or more - of
women . . . This is a sad tale, tenderly told, embedded in a robust
family chronicle' - Doris Lessing
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