The binding
By: Bridget Collins
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781785417627
Subjects: Bookbinders; Fiction; Bookbinding; Books and reading; Magic; Memory; Social classes; History; Relieurs; Romans, nouvelles; Livres et lecture; Classes sociales; Histoire
Description: Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a book binder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it ...