Adults

Emma Jane Unsworth is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her novel, Animals, was adapted into a film, for which Unsworth wrote the screenplay. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2019. She also writes for television and various magazines.

‘Jaunty, witty, sexy and funny … [Unsworth’s] writing surprises, delights and moves. I will remember, for a long time, this novel’s lacerating wit and its melancholy sorrow’ GUARDIAN -

‘Adults is hilarious … that this novel is so relatable is what makes it such a page-turner. Heartwarming and heartbreaking’ STYLIST -

‘Unsworth dazzlingly skewers modern life … This deserves to be gleefully quoted’ SUNDAY TIMES -

‘Virtuoso … Unsworth sparkles… like the very best of her kind, she creates a world complex enough that in the echoes of our laughter are also relatability, wistfulness, even hope’ OBSERVER -

‘I LOVED it! Dazzling observations & snarky one-liners, with a heroine who is vulnerable, funny, intelligent & feels SO REAL I WISH I'd written it!’ MARIAN KEYES -

‘Adults is a sharp, funny novel about floundering in a social-media world where everyone else seems to be flying … [Unsworth] nails the anguish of losing a future and figuring yourself out. Adults is witty, clever and a bit frightening. Unsworth had me rooting for Jenny to like herself’ THE TIMES -

‘Confronting, heartbreaking and hilarious … I completely & utterly adored it’ DOLLY ALDERTON -

‘Brilliant’ WOMAN’S HOUR BBC RADIO 4 -

‘As empathetic as it is energising … Superb’ DAILY MAIL -

‘Funny, arch & tender …. A must-read’ JESSIE BURTON -

‘Funny, sad and often very wise’ METRO -

‘Hilarious & heartbreaking’ RED -

‘Too funny, too clever, satisfyingly satirical & with just the right amount of Zodiac chat, ADULTS is incredible’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS -

‘Adults is a sharp, dark and frequently very funny story of mothers and daughters’i NEWS -

‘Unique, hilarious … I loved it’ HOLLY BOURNE -

‘As funny as it is scary . . . a very clever, and frequently sad, story of addiction hiding in plain sight: Instagram’ JUNO DAWSON -

‘Hilarious’ DAILY MAIL -