The Binding - Bridget Collins

Bridget Collins

Category: Adults

Tags: Adults, Fantasy, LGBT, Gay

Proclaimed as truly spellbinding, a great fable that functions as transporting romance by The Guardian, the runaway number one international best seller arrives in America. A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Spellbinding. (Tracy Chevalier) Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder - a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice among their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. Under the old womans watchful eye, E