The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

419 pages first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

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.Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptori...

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