The Peppered Moth Paperback by Margaret Drabble

Product Details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (2002-06-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771028816
• Item Weight: 394.35 grams
• Dimensions: 21.23 x 13.77 x 1.8 cm

The Bawtry family has been in South Yorkshire for generations when Bessie is born just before the turn of the last century. The Bawtrys have been content with their humble lot, but Bessie longs for the freedom promised by a new beginning. However, when she succeeds in being admitted to Cambridge and ascends to a new world of culture and rarified comforts, the tug of her family’s history remains, binding her to the past in ways she doesn’t entirely understand. Nearly a century later, Faro Gaulden finds her way back to the little mining town where her mother and her grandmother Bessie grew up. But for all Faro’s exotic ancestry and glamour, she wonders if she has really travelled away from home, and finds herself asking how is it that unforeseen events and encounters can alter forever what would seem to have been determined. Abounding with lively characters, sadness, and subversive wit, this is Margaret Drabble at her storytelling best.

About the Author

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939, and studied English at Cambridge University. Her novels include The Millstone, The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory, The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth, and The Seven Sisters. Among her non-fiction works are Arnold Bennett: A Biography, A Writer's Britain, and Angus Wilson: A Biography. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She has won prestigious awards such as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and the Golden PEN Award for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature." Drabble has three children and is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd. She lives in England.