Mrs. Jekyll

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

• “An immensely talented young writer . . . her fearlessness renews one’s faith in the power of literature.”
  George Saunders
• “Mrs. Jekyll is a heartbreaking and seductive novel—a swirling journey into grief’s abandon that is both dark and beautifully wrought.”
  Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure
• “Incisive and mercurial . . . a searing, feminist account of how it feels to be at war with yourself, and the desire to live and die in a world that can no longer contain you.”
  Jessica Andrews, author of Milk Teeth
• “Emma Glass is a devastatingly talented writer. . . . Every page transmits a dark, delicious power. I insist you drink it all in, like the perfect potion it is.”
  Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals
• "Mrs Jekyll is a raw and affecting novel ...There’s anger here, and pain, but also humor, wit, and a joyful letting go."
  Clare Fisher, author of All The Good Things
• "Mrs Jekyll is a gripping re-imagining of the classic gothic tale. Glass’s writing is daringly sensuous, intoxicating, compelling the reader towards a devastating finale."
  Naomi Booth, author of Sealed
• "Sensual, chilling, powerfully immersive, Emma Glass writes with a truly original voice."
  Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky and I Couldn’t Love You More