The Binding

LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

‘Brilliant’ Joanna Cannon‘Spellbinding’ Guardian‘Magic’ Erin Kelly‘Immersive’ Sunday Times‘Gorgeous’ Stella Duffy‘Astounding’ Anna Mazzola

Emmett Farmer is a binder’s apprentice. His job is to hand-craft beautiful books and, within each, to capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory.

 If you have something you want to forget, or a secret to hide, he can bind it – and you will never have to remember the pain it caused.

 In a vault under his mentor’s workshop, row upon row of books – and secrets – are meticulously stored and recorded.

 Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of the volumes has his name on it.