The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

388 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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