![]() ![]() Some bindings were authorised for trade and were available to be sold as a book containing other people’s memories, but most were secured under lock and key by the binder or an authorised party, however there was a strong back-market for illegal bindings. The memories they chose to lose were usually a sad or shameful event, but for me this caused a hole in the plot in that other people would still remember whatever the bound person wanted to forget or disassociate themselves from. Customers could not be bound without their permission and once the binding had been completed, the memory of whatever they agreed to was lost to them. Most people feared and disliked binders, whose mysterious trade involved taking their customer’s memories and securing them into a binding (or what we would know as a ‘book’). Part One of the story was told in the first person by Emmett Farmer, a young man who had been sent against his wishes to begin an apprenticeship as a binder. ![]() The story was set in an alternative version of England in the past, sometime after trains were invented but before cars or planes or trucks. ![]() ![]() If you’re reading this, Aunty G, I’ll have the book back to you soon! The Binding by Bridget Collins was loaned to me ages ago by Aunty G, and I am embarrassed to say I have held onto this book for far too long. ![]()
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