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The Dictionary of Lost Words

by Pip Williams
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A Reese's Book Club Pick, international bestseller, and the historical novel readers can't stop recommending.
While men wrote the dictionary, she collected the words they left behind.
Oxford, 1901.
As a child, Esme spends her days hidden beneath the sorting table where a team of scholars is creating the very first Oxford English Dictionary. She is expected to remain silent and unseen.
Then she discovers a discarded word.
When Esme rescues the word bondmaid from being lost forever, she begins collecting other words that have been overlooked, neglected, or deliberately excluded. As she grows up, she realizes that words describing women's lives are often missing from the dictionary—and from history itself.
Determined to preserve the stories nobody else values, Esme begins creating a dictionary of her own. One that captures the voices, experiences, and words that others have chosen to forget.
Heartfelt, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, The Dictionary of Lost Words is a bestselling historical novel about language, love, and the extraordinary power of being heard.

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