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, by Eley Williams (Doubleday). A playful paean to lexicology, this novel tells the story of two Londoners, Peter and Mallory, employed more than a hundred years apart by the publisher of a fictional rival to the Oxford English Dictionary. They are bound together by a number of false entries in the dictionary, put there by Peter, in 1899, and now being winnowed out by Mallory. As she works, we learn of their respective struggles: Peter, an awkward loner who speaks with a fake lisp, is in love with a co-worker’s fiancée; and Mallory, to her girlfriend’s dismay, is afraid to come out as a lesbian. Although the book abounds in dramatic incident, its main focus, like the characters’, is not actions but words, and “the transformative power of proper attention paid to small things.”

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