VINEGAR GIRL - Anne Tyler
When designing the jacket for Vinegar Girl, Anne Tyler’s retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, we decided to focus on the springtime setting of Baltimore, famous for its blossom. Flowers, gardens and gardening are very important to Kate and we tried various images of blossom to begin with, all of which we concluded were too soft for the humour of the story. Finally we decided upon a bold botanical drawing of a peony from the John Reeves Collection, courtesy of the Natural History Museum, London giving it a contemporary twist by changing the white background for a striking blue. This works not only aesthetically but also because a peony is given as a gift in the book.
The endpapers are illustrated by Clare Curtis.
Vinegar Girl is published today by Hogarth Shakespeare.
