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 “The Dictionary of Lost Words,” by Pip Williams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and

slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English

Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review.

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. She

rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other

words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. Set during the

height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Diction

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