From Adam Mars-Jones’ review of the latest Ian McEwan, in the London Review of Books:

“Any residual nastiness in the new novel Sweet Tooth has been curiously displaced, onto the cover of the book. I don’t mean the photographic image, which shows a glamorous woman in a red dress … I mean the texture of the actual lamination used on the dust jacket, almost sticky yet almost slimy, creating a subliminal urge to wash the hands that have been in contact with it. This is an effect no ebook can hope to duplicate.’

Perhaps someone from the publishers (Cape) could tell us how the effect was achieved, and whether it was intended or just a happy accident?