Within the pages of the books they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked away. If there’s something you need to erase, they can assist. If there’s something you want to forget, a binder can help. Within each one they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. Under the old woman’s watchful eye, Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born.
He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder-a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.įor as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret.
"A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Proclaimed as “truly spellbinding,” a “great fable” that “functions as transporting romance” by the Guardian, the runaway #1 international bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
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