Jun 6, 2016
NUTSHELL - Ian McEwan
Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers. The witness to this tale is the inquisitive, nine-month-old baby still in the womb.
The idea for this cover came while reading the...

NUTSHELL - Ian McEwan

Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers. The witness to this tale is the inquisitive, nine-month-old baby still in the womb.

The idea for this cover came while reading the manuscript. It was fortunate that the title Nutshell had a ‘u’ with which to create the pregnant belly. The curve of the ‘u’ had to be distorted sufficiently to give a full term pregnancy shape whilst retaining the look of the typeface. The ‘u’ also had to be big enough on the cover to hold the foetus. The study of the foetus in the womb is from a facsimile of a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.

Nutshell will be published by Jonathan Cape in September

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