I'm not very good at summing up a work in a few sentences, so I'll just say that The Peppered Moth is about the legacy a mother leaves her daughters and the daughters of her daughters and so on. I related so very much to this story and reading Drabble's afterword about how she was actually writing about her mother when she wrote about Bessie, just endeared me to Drabble all the more. And even though the author and I have more than thirty years between our ages, I think she and I have much in common in the mother department. This novel is one that I would like to own. Even though I am trying very hard to weed out my collection, this one I would take on and cherish. It is one of those books that I would reread, that I would dip into every once in a while to relive or re-find a page or a moment. There are very few books that I cherish so.