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Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills.
Her debut novel was the wildly successful The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020), which was based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives. The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023) is her second work of historical fiction, and exists in the same world as The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Her first work was One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life.
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