Heredity Author:Jenny Davidson New Yorker Elizabeth Mann travels to London on a travel writing assignment. Little does she know that her ultimate discoveries will be far more captivating than the happenings at Buckingham Palace or the activities of the royal family. When she becomes lovers with an infertility specialist, the two conceive a plan to create a new person using th... more »e DNA of an infamous 18th-century criminal. Combining elements of Girl, Interrupted and A. S. Byatts Possession, Heredity is both a deadpan detective story and a twisted historical romance.« less