Lucy Roslyn's Pennyroyal takes Edith Wharton's 1922 novella The Old Maid as its initial inspiration but feels immensely immediate and relevant. It centres on a very specific theme " Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, not a Wharton issue, to be clear " but in it's unflinching, open-hearted depiction of the stresses and dynamics of family relationships it nudges towards the universal. There's a lot to unpack and connect …
