The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
Taste attributes: historicaldramaheavyrealisticglossyenclosedemotive & stirringempowerment/personal growthsocial commentaryhuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeA historical novel that sits near the middle on every taste dimension: nothing pushed to extremes.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.5 / 5
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About This Book
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table.
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- Author
- Pip Williams
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 368
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- Open Library
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