Emma Jane Unsworth’s fizzy story of sisterly rivalry has shades of her TV collaborator Sharon Horgan

Emma Jane Unsworth’s fizzy story of sisterly rivalry has shades of her TV collaborator Sharon Horgan

Sisterly rivalry has long been a rich literary seam to mine, and for good reason. Take two women in the fullness of their chaotic, complex glory, add in a dark backstory and the ongoing competition that often happens between women that are close. It’s been done before, certainly, but Emma Jane Unsworth has taken this dynamic, swept out the clichés and added plenty of fizz and salt to the trope.

In conversation with Emma Jane Unsworth

Unsworth’s New Book Slags Award-winning author Emma Jane Unsworth has returned with Slags. This bold and emotional new novel explores fractured sisterhood, the power of memory, and the evolution of female identity from adolescence to middle age.  In her eagerly anticipated novel, Unsworth follows two estranged sisters on a reluctant road trip through Scotland’s windswept Highlands. Alternating between the raw honesty of a fourteen-year-old’s dia…