Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter as well as a bestselling novelist. With episodes of Apples’ The Buccaneers and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws under her belt, she’s also got film and TV projects of her own on the boil. The author of Animals and Adults talks to novelist and screenwriter Nussaibah Younis about her newest novel, a no-holds-barred, frank and heartfelt exploration of sisterhood, friendship and teenage obsession. In Slags, sisters Sarah and Juliette are going on a whisky-fuelled campervan road-trip across Scotland to celebrate Juliette’s birthday – and they’re going to dig up some demons from the past.
