The Binding is a remarkably accomplished novel in which Bridget Collins performs some dark alchemy of her own to meld the power of magic and memories with the traditional hand craft of bookbinding and sees a young man’s apprenticeship transform into his calling, the integrity of which he’ll be forced to question when he discovers how others seek to abuse the secrets it hides. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it. In a vault under his mentor’s workshop, row upon row of books and memories are meticulously stored and recorded. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. If there’s something you need to erase, he can assist. If there’s something you want to forget, he can help. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. Bridget Collins’ The Binding is one book you’ll lust after for your collection with its beautifully finished dust jacket and intricately designed book boards, holding within them the promise that this young man’s story is no ordinary apprentice’s tale.Įmmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship.
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