Fogatini, Pawnbroker and Licens’d Bookseller, works in the town of Castleford, not far from the farm where Emmett lived and expected to die. Emmett is furious and frustrated, but he accedes to his father’s request to leave the farm behind and start anew. Besides, the bookbinder has called for him, which is a summons no family can resist. Emmett’s family has long been against reading and is suspicious of books – he was even beaten for buying one at the Wakening Fair – but they also know that this represents his best opportunity for a successful future. At dinner one evening, exhausted and dusty after the day’s toil, he receives an important letter telling him he has been apprenticed to the binder, and will learn how to create books. Still recovering from a severe illness and frustrated by his lingering infirmity, he insists on working the family farm. I was intrigued by that unusual premise, but the novel ultimately fails to deliver and instead presents the reader with a story that’s at times so dark as to be difficult to get through, and in which the hero is shoved aside so the story can focus on his love interest.Įmmett Farmer is an ordinary yet sickly young man. Bridget Collins’ The Binding is set in a magical quasi-Victorian world in which books are dangerous.
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