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Emma Jane Unsworth

Biography

Emma Jane Unsworth

Emma Jane Unsworth has written two award-winning novels: HUNGRY, THE STARS AND EVERYTHING and ANIMALS. She wrote the screenplay of Animals, and the film, directed by Sophie Hyde and starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat, premiered at Sundance 2019 and was released in the UK later that year. She regularly writes essays for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian Weekend. She also writes for television.

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Books by Emma Jane Unsworth

Grown Ups
by Emma Jane Unsworth - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Jenny McLaine’s life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She’s just lost her column at The Foof because she isn’t the fierce voice new feminism needs. Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny’s mother is about to move in. Having left home at 18 to remake herself as a self-sufficient millennial, Jenny is now in her 30s, and nothing is as she thought it would be. Least of all adulthood. Told in live-wire prose, texts, emails, script dialogue and social media messages, GROWN UPS is a neurotic dramedy of 21st-century manners for the digital age.