by Margaret Drabble · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670894000
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«The Peppered Moth» is the contemporary fiction novel by Margaret Drabble, published by Viking in 2001 in hardback (400 pages, in English).
In 1905, Bessie Bawtry, a brilliant girl from a Yorkshire mining village, studies to escape her surroundings. A century later, Bessie's granddaughter returns to that town and hears a lecture on genetic inheritance. The novel follows four generations of a family and reflects on inheritance, DNA, and destiny.
For book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in family memory and genetic inheritance.
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
