- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, romance, historical, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world.
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Comic, warm, meticulous and cool.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Eley Williams
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Diversified Publishing
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593311868
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