Mrs. Jekyll

By turns tender and devastating, Mrs Jekyll contorts Stevenson's gothic classic into a sumptuous and shocking account of modern womanhood. n Rosy Winter is dying. n n Something is growing in her. A hard knot in her chest. A dark spot that cannot be cut out, now seeping outward. n n 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. n n 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. n n 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. n