Mrs. Jekyll - by Emma Glass (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

By turns tender and devastating, Mrs Jekyll contorts Stevenson's gothic classic into a sumptuous and shocking account of modern womanhood.

Rosy Winter is dying.

Something is growing in her. A hard knot in her chest. A dark spot that cannot be cut out, now seeping outward.

Her husband, Charlie--kind, supportive, but somewhat out of his depth--offers what relief he can as she suffers. His sister, Sally, offers even less, distracted by a shift within her own husband.

But beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligations, the snatched whispers on wards and in staffrooms, a force --murderous, sensual, feverish--has been awoken and is stirring within her. A refusal to live, as much as to die.

In searing, lyrical prose that shimmers with rage and longing, Emma Glass has delivers an utterly singular and surreal story of power and powerlessness, light and dark, and life and death.

About the Author

Emma Glass was born in Wales and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children's nurse. Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into eight languages, and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novel Rest and Be Thankful was published by Bloomsbury in 2020 and is currently under option for film. Both novels received absolute raves both in the UK and US, including glowing praise from The New Yorker, LA Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and many others.