Story of the lexicographers who undertook writing the Oxford English Dictionary pre-WW I. Esme is the daughter of one of the researchers/editors and grows up sitting under the editing table and learning to love words as much as her dad. However, as she grows she realizes that some words are omitted due to the fact that they relate to woman and are considered inconsequential or obscene by the Victorian men. (I'll admit some of the language is offensive, but it's not abundant.) Follows Esme and her friends and acquaintances for an interesting fictional history of "words".
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