Bøger af Pip Williams

Historisk roman om kærlighed, tab og sprogets magt. Med kvindebevægelsen som bagtæppe udforsker romanen de skjulte liv, der udspiller sig mellem linjerne i en historie skrevet af mænd.Esme bliver født ind i en verden af ord. Som det moderløse barn hun er, tilbringer hun størstedelen af sin barndom i Skriptoriet: det haveskur i Oxford, hvor hendes far og et dedikeret hold af leksikografer indsamler ord til den allerførste udgave af Oxford English Dictionary. Men Esme opdager, at det ikke er alle ord, der finder vej ind i det toneangivende storværk, og hun begynder at indsamle dem, der er blevet glemt eller afvist af de lærde mænd – typisk dem, der knytter sig til kvinders oplevelser. Hun skjuler ordene i en gammel kasse, og langsomt begynder en helt ny ordbog at tage form: De glemte ords bog. Og den tegner et ganske andet billede af virkeligheden end den, hun er vokset op med.De glemte ords bog er inspireret af virkelige hændelser, og Pip Williams er dykket dybt ned i Oxford English Dictionarys arkiver for at fortælle denne tankevækkende historie om sprogets evne til at forme den verden, vi lever i.

Da Første Verdenskrig bryder ud, drager størstedelen af mændene fra Oxford University Press mod Vestfronten. Efterladt tilbage er kvinderne, der må holde forlaget og resten af nationen kørende. De usikre tider skaber store forandringer i Peggy og Maudes ellers forudsigelige tilværelse. Snart er Oxford fyldt med flygtninge og frivillige sygeplejersker. Med krigen opstår nye venskaber og nye muligheder for Peggy, men også nogle svære valg.Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

Peggy og hendes tvillingesøster Maude arbejder i bogbinderiet hos Oxford University Press. Hver dag folder de ark, som senere skal blive til bøger. Peggy drømmer om en dag at kunne læse bøgerne, mens Maude er fint tilfreds med kun at folde. De bor sammen på en husbåd i forstaden Jericho, som grænser op til Oxford.Da Første Verdenskrig bryder ud, drager størstedelen af mændene fra Oxford University Press mod Vestfronten. Efterladt tilbage er kvinderne, der må holde forlaget og resten af nationen kørende. De usikre tider skaber store forandringer i Peggy og Maudes ellers forudsigelige tilværelse og giver nye bekendtskaber. Fra frivillige sygeplejersker til flygtninge, på flugt fra besættelsens rædsler, bringer krigen kvinder fra alle samfundslag sammen, og med dem følger nogle svære valg for Peggy.Bogbinderen fra Jericho er en roman om viden – hvem skaber den, hvem kan få adgang til den og hvilke sandheder går tabt i processen? Som i De glemte ords bog foregår handlingen i de historiske rammer omkring Oxford, og Pip Williams udforsker mange af de samme temaer om klasseskel og ligestilling mellem kønnene.

Esme bliver født ind i en verden af ord. Som det moderløse barn hun er, tilbringer hun størstedelen af sin barndom i Skriptoriet: det haveskur i Oxford, hvor hendes far og et dedikeret hold af leksikografer indsamler ord til den allerførste udgave af Oxford English Dictionary. Men Esme opdager, at det ikke er alle ord, der finder vej ind i det toneangivende storværk, og hun begynder at indsamle dem, der er blevet glemt eller afvist af de lærde mænd – typisk dem, der knytter sig til kvinders oplevelser. Hun skjuler ordene i en gammel kasse, og langsomt begynder en helt ny ordbog at tage form: De glemte ords bog. Og den tegner et ganske andet billede af virkeligheden end den, hun er vokset op med. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

"A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words. "Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in The Dictionary of Lost Words."--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrow boat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them--but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street, where the female students of Oxford's Somerville College have a whole library at their fingertips. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has: to spend her days folding the pages of books in the company of the other bindery girls. She is extraordinary but vulnerable, and Peggy feels compelled to watch over her. Then refugees arrive from the war-torn cities of Belgium, sending ripples through the Oxford community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can educate herself and use her intellect, not just her hands. But as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier--and the responsibility that comes with it--threaten to hold her back. The Bookbinder is a story about knowledge--who creates it, who can access it, and what truths get lost in the process. Much as she did in the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams thoughtfully explores another rarely seen slice of history through women's eyes"--

"Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means "slave girl," begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women's suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men."--

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable thing - they quit their jobs, pulled the children out of school and went searching for la dolce vita in Italy. One Italian Summer is a warm, funny and poignant story of a family's search for a better way of living, in the homes and on the farms of strangers. Pip sleeps in a tool shed, feasts under a Tuscan sun, works like a tractor in Calabria and, eventually, finds the good life she's always dreamed of - though not at all where she expected.