The Binding

A NEW EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHORSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Spellbinding’ Guardian''Utterly brilliant'' Joanna Cannon''A stirring, highly original piece of storytelling and world-making'' Sunday TimesImagine you could hide a secret. Forever.Emmett Farmer is a binder''s apprentice. His job is to hand-craft beautiful books and, within each, to capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory.If you have something you want to forget, or a secret to hide, he can bind it – and you will never have to remember the pain it caused.In a vault under his mentor''s workshop, row upon row of books – and secrets – are meticulously stored and recorded.Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of the volumes has his name on it.