Did cute cover picture of Robins help novelist win 20026 Women's Prize for Fiction?

                                             

Authors and publishers seem to have twigged that it seldom does any harm to have one or more birds depicted on the cover of a book. This week, The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction, while in 2014, Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.