Emma Jane Unsworth

Emma Jane Unsworth is a British novelist, screenwriter, and journalist whose sharp, funny fiction explores modern womanhood, friendship, and the chaos of contemporary life. Born in Rossendale, Lancashire, she studied English at the University of Manchester and has written for publications including the Guardian and Grazia. Unsworth's novels include Hungry, the Starved and Animals (adapted into a film, about two hard-partying best friends facing the end of their wild years). Adults follows a woman whose life implodes — she loses her boyfriend, her job, and her flat — and retreats to her mother's spare room, where she obsessively curates her social media persona while her real life falls apart. The novel is a scathing, hilarious portrait of millennial anxiety and the gap between online performance and offline reality. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers sharp, funny fiction about the absurdities of modern life — novels that take aim at social media, self-help culture, and the pressure to have it all together, with genuine warmth beneath the satire.