The Scent Keeper

Emmeline grows up on a remote island with her father and a wall of drawers holding captured scents, raised on fairy tales and a machine whose purpose she does not understand. When she is forced into the ordinary world she has to work out how much of her childhood was invention. Bauermeister writes smell better than almost anyone, and uses it as a way into memory, and into how a parent’s story can be both a gift and a cage.