The wordsmith
By: Patricia Forde
Publisher: Little Island
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781908195999
Subjects: Lexicographer; Juvenile fiction
Description: On the death of her master, Letta is suddenly promoted from apprentice to wordsmith, charged with collecting and archiving words in post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval Ark. When she uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language and rob the people of Ark of the power of speech, she realises that she has to save not only words, but the culture itself.