Originally published: Great Britain : William Heinemann, an imprint of Cornerstone Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, 2020.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.