The Bind charts the rise and fall of Egret Bindings, once the most
prestigious firm of bookbinders in London. In 1910 brothers Guy and
Victor Egret take on an ambitious commission: a deluxe, jeweled binding
of a collection of poems, A Moonless Land. It proves to be a moment of
hubris. The work triggers their ruin, watched by the disapproving spirit
of their father, Garrison Egret. A darkly humorous tale of sibling
rivalry and creative one-upmanship, The Bind shows once again that
William Goldsmith is an incomparable storyteller and a marvelously
inventive artist.