The binding [large print]
First published 2019
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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.
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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 ...
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Bridget Collins
- First published
- 2019
- Edition
- Binding
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- ISBN-13
- 9780008272142