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Bizarre lit fic you won’t be able to put down
An unsettling read that starts gently and catches you unawares. This is a strange account of a woman diagnosed with cancer, and the changes that overcome h... READ MORE
A Beautifully Written Novel
Glass has such a beautiful and visceral writing style, her blending of prose and verse, and fragmentation of mind and identity are extraordinary. Though th... READ MORE
Synopsis
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...
Publisher information
- Publisher: CHEERIO Publishing
- ISBN: 9781739440565
- Languages: English