Mrs Jekyll

Author(s): Glass, Emma
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 27/06/2024,
Pagination: ,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781739440565,
Description:

By turns tender and devastating, Mrs Jekyll contorts Stevenson's gothic classic in a sumptuous and shocking account of modern womanhood. Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying.

Her husband Charlie offers all the relief he can. Rosy's sister-in-law, Sally, offers none.

But Rosy feels something growing in her. A hard knot in her chest.

Beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligations, the snatched whispers on wards and in staffrooms, a force - murderous, feminine, feverish - is stirring within her...