The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel Elettra Stamboulis Suspenseful and cinematic

Suspenseful and cinematic

For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts

Marriage of convenience

and former pop star Bunny Leigh

conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them

The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel Elettra Stamboulis Suspenseful and cinematicNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER REESES 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 A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious,