Atmospheric and lusciously told, Mrs Jekyll reframes Stevenson’s classic story of human duality in the present day, as one woman contends with a terminal diagnosis — and unearths the effervescence of a life suppressed. Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, 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. A story of power and powerlessness, light and dark, life and death, Mrs Jekyll embraces the paradoxes and paroxysms of modern womanhood, in a story every bit as gripping as the original. Mrs Jekyll, the third novel from Emma Glass, reframes Stevenson’s classic story of human duality in the present day, as one woman contends with a terminal diagnosis – and unearths the effervescence of a life suppressed.

Mrs Jekyll is a bruising exploration of agency and loss. Incisive and mercurial, Emma Glass takes the classic Jekyll and Hyde story and makes it entirely her own. 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 Saltwater

Glass makes us look in the uncomfortable places, to see the things we want to turn away from. The result is fiction that feels truer than biography. — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You

Brilliantly bizarre feminist rewrite. — Sunday Times

Mrs Jekyll is a raw and affecting novel. Rosy Winter is a vivid character, and I felt for her every step of the way. There’s anger here, and pain, but also humour, wit, and a joyful letting go. — Clare Fisher, author of All the Good Things

An elegant, intricately crafted book which takes the classic story into a whole new dimension, Mrs Jekyll captured my attention from the very first page [. . .] Emma Glass has created a piece of such exquisite work that it will enthral a whole generation of readers. A huge win for literature, the elemental and potent Mrs Jekyll is one of my favourite books this year. —  Nikita Gill

Mrs Jekyll is a heart-breaking and seductive novel — a swirling journey into grief’s abandon that is both dark and beautifully-wrought. —  Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure

A fever-dream of a novel — hypnotic prose, fiercely inventive, a mesmerising hymn to anger and freedom. — Anna Metcalfe, author of Chrysalis

Suspenseful, thrilling, and deeply original — Emma is one of the most distinctive and exciting literary novelists around, with a poet’s heart and a surgical sensibility about what is unsettling, puzzling and sublime about the world [. . .] I read the novel in one sitting, and I found it moving and disturbing in the best possible way. — Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

Sensual, ferocious, visionary and bombastic, this book is profoundly intimate while also flinging the biggest human questions wide open. I loved it. Charged with rage and righteous transformation, it’s a novel that reaffirms the deep, complex glory of inhabiting a female body on the edge of life – Glass has concocted a truth serum that smashes paradigms and comes up smiling [. . .] 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