Spotted Pigs and Green Tomatoes (40 page)

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Rosie Boycott was one of the founders of
Spare Rib
magazine and Virago Press. She was the editor of
Esquire
magazine, as well as of the
Independent on Sunday,
the
Independent
and the
Daily Express.
She is a frequent contributor to the
Late Review, Woman's Hour
and the
Politics Show,
and has presented her own show on BBC2,
Life Etc.
She is also the author of
A Nice Girl Like Me,
an autobiographical story of the '60s and '70s. Rosie is married to the barrister Charles Howard and they live in London and
Somerset. She has one daughter, Daisy, four stepchildren, Miranda, Luke, Alex and Francesca, two dogs, Bingo and Dylan, and
numerous pigs, chickens, geese and turkeys.

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

The text of this book is set in Linotype Sabon, named after the type founder, Jacques Sabon. It was designed by Jan Tschichold
and jointly developed by Linotype, Monotype and Stempel, in response to a need for a typeface to be available in identical
form for mechanical hot metal composition and hand composition using foundry type.

Tschichold based his design for Sabon roman on a font engraved by Garamond, and Sabon italic on a font by Granjon. It was
first used in 1966 and has proved an enduring modern classic.