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The Dictionary of Lost Words

Paperback • 2022 • English

The Dictionary of Lost Words

By Pip Williams

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day, she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten word flutter to the floor unclaimed. And so Esme begins to collect words for another dictionary in secret: The Dictionary of Lost Words. But to do so she must journey into a world on the cusp of change as the Great War looms and women fight for the vote. Can the power of lost wor...Show more

Fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9781529113228

Publisher

Random House UK

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Format

Paperback

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