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Binding

A Novel

byBridget Collins

Genres: Historical fiction Fantasy Magical Realism

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy magical realism, historical fiction, and stories about memory and identity.

Topics Personal historiesBook bindingMemory manipulationSecretsApprenticeshipFamily dynamicsIdentity discoverySupernatural abilitiesForbidden knowledgeIntrigueMemoryIdentityForbidden Love

MoodMysterious, Hopeful

RomanceMajor Subplot

Set against a landscape that is part Victorian gothic, part medieval outlier and yet strikingly modern, The Binding slowly unravels a mystery surrounding Emmett Farmer, a farm labourer whose life is irrevocably altered when he receives a cryptic summons, pressing him into service as an apprentice to a Bookbinder. It is an invitation he is both drawn to and desperate to run from. For a Bookbinder’s trade is like no other. In the house set deep in the marshes, Emmett learns the skills to make exquisitely beautiful volumes, every one as unique as the last and each holding a dark and peculiar secret: a person’s most unconscionable memories. And to Emmett, they whisper in the darkness. Then one day he discovers a book with his own name on it and is forced to choose between forgetting and the dreadful, tantalising promise of remembrance. Conjuring a magic all of its own, The Binding is a richly imagined story of boundary-defying desire and prejudice wrapped in layers of enchantment, enigma and stunningly evoked detail. Peopled by fully-fledged characters that live and breathe from the book’s pages, it is a novel to fall in love with.

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Published on

14/01/2020

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780008272142

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