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The Dictionary of Lost Words

ISBN 
9781529113228
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R270.00
Published 
January 2022
About the book: 
In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
 
Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.
 
Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word 'bondmaid' flutter to the floor unclaimed.
 
Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Other titles by this author 
About the Author

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills. Her debut novel,  The Dictionary of Lost Words,  was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick.  The Bookbinder  is her second novel.

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