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...
