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The Liar’s Dictionary
First published 2020
About the book
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.
Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.
Peter Winceworth, Victorian lexicographer, is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. His disaffection compels him to insert unauthorized fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom.
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In the present day, Mallory, a young intern employed by the publisher, is tasked with uncovering these mountweazels before the work is digitized. She also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller.
Prizes
- 2021 Shortlist
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Catalogue record
- Author
- Williams, Eley
- Statement
- The Liar’s Dictionary / Eley Williams.
Book facts
- ISBN
- 978-0-593-31186-8
4 more ISBNs
- 978-0-385-54677-5
- 978-0-593-34608-2
- 978-1-78609-059-1
- 978-1-78515-205-4
- Records
- Open Library Wikidata
