{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Binding","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-binding","description":"Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a book binder, 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\u0026#39;s something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor\u0026#39;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 ...","author_name":"Bridget Collins","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/bridget-collins","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30404054/content.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":196}