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419 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 0593160193
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Description
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptori...
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419 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 0593160193
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Description
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptori...