- Designed by
- Jenny Grigg
- Category
- Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Giramondo Publishing Company
About the Designer
Jenny Grigg is an award winning Australian graphic designer who has worked in Sydney, London, Copenhagen and Melbourne. She has a PhD from RMIT University.
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The cover design is a visual metaphor for the title and the fugitive spirit of the author as she reflects about her life in her 46th year, living alone by the sea after the failure of her marriage. The juxtaposition of a section of a Matisse cut-out, and a piece of seaweed portray her as a mermaid. Matisse is a theme within the book, and seaweed signifies her life lived by the sea. Throughout, one is aware of the writer’s own body, as an entity which shifts its identity like water, with its changes of mood, relationships and reflections.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 148 x 210 mm
- No. pages
- 312
- Special finishes
- Uncoated Stock
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Jenny Grigg
- Photography
- Jenny Grigg
- Illustration
- Jenny Grigg
- Typesetting
- Andrew Davies
- Printing
- KHL Printing
- Author
- Beverley Farmer
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