- Designed by
- Debra Billson
- Category
- Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Pantera Press
About the Designer
Debra has been designing books since Roxette had ‘The Look’. She spent her early career creating products for children as an art director and studio manager, until landing her dream job at Penguin Books. For almost a decade, this saw her working across all genres with some of Australia’s highest profile authors, until starting her own business from her Melbourne home-studio in 2007. Whilst having designed everything from children’s board books to cookbooks, Debra’s true love is creating fiction covers…
View profile- Design Rationale
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This is a novel about a mother whose son has been accused of murder – and the lengths she will go to protect her child – all set against the vivid backdrop of the Black Saturday bushfires. The brief originally included suggestions of a close-up of a mother and son’s hands, references to the mother’s archaeology background with Roman mosaics or sculptures, or a ghostly woman in a white dress. These directions were unsuccessful, and at the end of the day, the simplest solution (and perhaps most obvious) was the right way to go for the cover.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 153 x 234 mm
- No. pages
- 424
- Special finishes
- Soft touch
- Credits
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- Typesetting
- Kirby Jones
- Printing
- McPherson's Printing Group
- Author
- Kimberley Starr