The Dictionary Of Lost Words

Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father’s feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten word flutter to the floor unclaimed. And so she begins to collect words for another dictionary in secret. As she does, the world is on the cusp of change, as the Great War looms and women fight for the vote. Can the power of lost words from the past help to make sense of the future?