6/27/2023 0 Comments Bridget collins the binding![]() ![]() When Seredith dies, the books fall into unscrupulous hands, and Emmett is set on a path to recover his lost past. Of course, somewhere among them is a book with Emmett’s name on it, which contains the secret of his disgrace. ![]() They leave dulled but soothed, and in her cellar, Seredith keeps their secrets safe in gorgeous books with the subject’s name on the spine. But he soon realises that the true work of binding is magical, manifested in the way that lives are turned into stories.ĭistressed people arrive at Seredith’s, asking to have their traumatic experiences put down on paper once that is done, the memories are erased. He spends his days learning to make endpapers, tool leather, gilding – the delicate physical labour of making beautiful books. When he arrives at the isolated house of Seredith, the elderly woman to whom he’s apprenticed, it’s both an exile and a haven. ![]() ![]() He’s weak after a long illness of a mysterious nature and, from his family’s strained behaviour, we intuit that he’s in some kind of disgrace he doesn’t fully understand. B ridget Collins’s fantasy novel, her first for adults, begins sombrely, with its teenage hero Emmett being sent away from his family farm to become an apprentice to a binder of books. ![]()
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