{"product_id":"the-binding","title":"The Binding","description":"The most captivating novel of 2019\n          \n          `Utterly brilliant' Joanna Cannon\n`Truly spellbinding' Guardian\n`Pure magic' Erin Kelly\n`A real treat' The Times\n`Gorgeous' Stella Duffy\n`Astounding' Anna Mazzola\n\n\n          Imagine you could erase your grief.\nImagine you could forget your pain.\nImagine you could hide a secret.\nForever.\n\n\n          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.\n\n\n          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.\n\n\n          In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded.\n\n\n          Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it.\n\n\n          THE BINDING is an unforgettable, magical novel: a boundary-defying love story and a unique literary event.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39656312897621,"sku":"9780008272111N","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/250d2ce3-498d-4607-af13-6302adec6451.jpg?v=1644274950","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-binding","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}