Eley Williams Liar's Dictionary Paperback Book

A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021Joyous SPECTATORRemarkable SUNDAY TIMESA playful delight... A glorious novel OBSERVERSwansbys New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is riddled with fictitious entries known as mountweazels penned by Peter Winceworth, a man wishing to make his lasting mark back in 1899. Its up to young intern Mallory to uncover these mountweazels before the dictionary can be digitised for modern readers. Lost in Winceworths imagination a world full of meaningless words will Mallory finally discover the secret to living a meaningful life?Made me almost tearful with gratitude that a book as clever as this could give such uncomplicated pleasure ... And when you find a book like this, you grab it, and you hold it close. JOHN SELFA delight ... As funny and vivid as Dickens, as moving and memorable as Nabokov ... An extraordinarily largehearted work. THE CRITICDeft and clever, refreshing and rewarding ... An assured and satisfying writer, her language rich and intricate and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic and lampoonist enough to be terribly funny. LITERARY REVIEW[The] most exciting of young British writers ... Williams luxuriates in words and wordplay, in definition and precision and invention ...The Liars Dictionary is a public joy, and Eley Williams a freespirited literary kook with bags of potential. BIG ISSUEA singular, hilarious, worddrunk novel, which I suspect will be seen in the future as a... | Eley Williams Liar's Dictionary Paperback Book