Frizzie Lizzie 

from Joan Lingard’s The Stolen Sister, 2019

Pencil on paper, digitally coloured

This is Frizzie Lizzie, a house maid at Elfie’s grandfather’s house, in Joan’s final book in her Elfie and Joe trilogy. I put her on the back cover, furtively walking away from the garden gate of her employer’s large, grand Hampstead residence. I love that the brief enabled me to add these detailed touches. I adored reading these historical mysteries, for 8 to 12 year olds, and getting inside the characters’ heads. Joan is such a brilliant writer and these covers were a joy to do.