Everything Under : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Condition:Good with an illuminating introduction by

with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene

and even ardent believers

But after marriage and babies

these immigrants usually took up low-wage jobs

abortion and sterilisation

Everything Under : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Condition:Good with an illuminating introduction byThe dictionary doesnt contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past