Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Parenting From a missing or not-so-missing

From a missing or not-so-missing calculator to the appearance of strange holes in the school field

Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister

alongside a map to lead her to Longcoat Bob

She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect

Haunted by an unspeakable vision of the future

Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Parenting From a missing or not-so-missingPaperback In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esmes place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip