Mar 7, 2017
FROM THE HEART - Susan Hill
You’re a young woman. You can choose. Which career to pursue. Who to have sex with. Who to marry and have children – or not – with. This is now.
The new novel from Susan Hill however, takes us back to the 1950s, a time...

FROM THE HEART - Susan Hill

You’re a young woman. You can choose. Which career to pursue. Who to have sex with. Who to marry and have children – or not – with. This is now.

The new novel from Susan Hill however, takes us back to the 1950s, a time when these choices were not necessarily available to all women.

The book jacket was designed using a striking period fabric designed by Ruth Adler Schnee. The fabric together with the folded letters, evoke both the time and atmosphere of the novel in which communication and relationships are central.

Ruth Adler Schnee’s personal story and contribution to design are extraordinary and inspiring: she escaped persecution in Nazi Germany with her family and settled in Detroit, USA at the age of 16. After studying design she went on to become a pioneering textile designer standing at the forefront of postwar modernism.  Her bold, abstract and rhythmic designs are based on the forms of the world around her.  She is still working today at the age of 94.

Read more about this remarkable woman and view her beautiful work here.

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