Angel Hench
asked
Taylor Jenkins Reid:
I sort of love that the cover of the hardcover U.S. edition is misleading. It looks so much like a romance book, and yet its historical fiction and LGBT and a mystery and just great fiction. But I also feel that it does a disservice to the book in that very few men will pick it up. Who determined which cover would house this beauty of a book?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The cover is determined by a variety of factors but the biggest thing leading this one was simply the beauty of it. I was so happy to see that my publisher represented Evelyn on the cover in such a sprawling, gorgeous way.
The book is, perhaps, more subversive and complex than the cover would initially lead you to believe but I think the image captures the glamour of the story -- and of Evelyn -- and I'm very enamored with it.
The book is, perhaps, more subversive and complex than the cover would initially lead you to believe but I think the image captures the glamour of the story -- and of Evelyn -- and I'm very enamored with it.
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Emily
asked
Taylor Jenkins Reid:
What films did you draw on as inspiration for Evelyn's more avant garde films in the book?
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