An Evening With Emma Jane Unsworth
Join BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter and bestselling, award-winning novelist Emma Jane Unsworth for an evening of conversation, laughter and discussion about her brand-new novel Slags.
Hosted by award-winning journalist, Beth Ashley and author of SLUTS, you can expect an evening of feminism, discussion and laughter.
Every ticket includes a copy of Emma's new book, Slags, which she will sign and dedicate on the night.
About the book: Slags
Once a slag, always a slag?
It’s the 1990s. Sarah is 15, obsessed with boy bands, sex and getting drunk on Malibu. Most of all, she’s hung up on her teacher, Mr Keaveney.
Fast forward 26 years. Sarah is 41, the last of the party girls. But the mad nights out are losing their shine. And her teenage dreams are now distant, queasy memories.
There’s only one thing for it: an adventure. So, Sarah sets off with her sister Juliette on a whisky-fuelled campervan trip across Scotland.
The sisters have never been alike, but they know all the dark corners of each other’s history – and it’s time to dig up some demons, kicking and screaming.
Because the things that once defined us shouldn’t define us forever, should they?
About Emma Jane Unsworth
Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter and bestselling, award-winning novelist. Emma has written an episode of THE BUCCANEERS for Apple/The Forge. She wrote an episode of Stephen Merchant’s THE OUTLAWS for BBC/Amazon. She was nominated for a BAFTA for her script.
She is currently developing several of her own TV projects as well as writing a film and a musical. She adapted her novel ANIMALS into a feature film. The film, directed by Sophie Hyde, premiered at Sundance 2019 and starred Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. Emma won a BIFA for her script.
Her second novel, ADULTS, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller when it was published in 2020.
About Beth Ashley
Beth Ashley is an investigative journalist who specialises in sex, relationships and social class. Her work ranges from light-hearted features on Gen Z dating culture to deep investigations into inequality, and has appeared in The Guardian, Refinery29, Vice, i-D, Dazed, Glamour, The Face, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, Women’s Health, Mashable, The Metro and more.
Beth has also consulted on Bumble’s podcast My Love Is… and has produced documentaries for Channel 4. She writes a lot about her working class background, with articles such as Does Class Impact the Way We Have Sex? And Not Worrying About Being Working Class Until I Went to Art School (which went viral on social media). Over the last few years she has cultivated a loyal (and growing) readership and community of social media followers.