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The Binding

AuthorBridget Collins

NarratorCarl Prekopp

Duration15h 29m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels, LGBTQ+ Literature

PublisherHarper Collins

VersionUnabridged

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Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, 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. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. 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.

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Sandra 19 Jul 2024

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Angela 12 Oct 2023

Fabulous

This book just pulled me into the story from the beginning. I couldn't stop listening. There is happiness, sadness, fantasy. Everything. Narrated really well. Definitely recommended listen.

Heather 18 Jan 2021

Get lost in a world of memories heartbreak and books

An excellent read/listen. I couldn't wait to find out what happened next. Thoroughly recommend to lovers of Philip Pullman

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