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We've been celebrating all the incredible women we know with dyslexia and neurodiversities this week, and on International Women's Day itself we were lucky enough to bag a chat with Pip Williams, the author of The Dictionary of Lost Words. Pip is an an author with dyslexia whose latest work interrogates the experience of being a woman against a backdrop of literacy and language, and we talked all things books, dyslexia and history.
The Dictionary of Lost Words is a historical novel set during the height of the Suffrage movement in England, and tells the tale of a lexicographer's daughter who starts compiling a dictionary of her own out of the words the world at large deems to have less importance than others - words that come from the world of women that aren't considered important or scholarly enough to make it into the standard dictionaries of the time. As her father puts together the very first Oxford English Dictionary, Esme creates her own landscape of stolen words as the First World War looms heavy on the horizon.
You can catch our exclusive Q&A session with Pip over at our official Succeed With Dyslexia Facebook page - check it out, or head on over to @SucceedWithDyslexia to catch it on Instagram.
