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by Pip Williams
Esme grows up in the Scriptorium, where her father and a team of lexicographers are compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary. She begins collecting words discarded or neglected by the men-words relating to women's experiences and the lives of the poor. Set against the backdrop of the women's suffrage movement and World War I, this lyrical novel is a celebration of language and a poignant look at whose stories get told and whose are silenced by history.
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