#263 Emma Jane Unsworth: From Novel To Screenplay

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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My guest today is Emma Jane Unsworth - the award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her latest novel, ADULTS, a comedy about a thirty-something woman whose life is falling apart and has been described as a "witty" and "virtuoso" satire by The Guardian and "sharp and funny" by The Times. Her previous novel, ANIMALS, was adapted into a film, for which Unsworth wrote the screenplay. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2019 and Unsworth won the award for Best Debut Screenwriter at the British Independent Film Awards 2019. She also writes for television and various magazines. She is currently adapting ADULTS for television.

In this episode we discuss novel writing, script-writing, social media addiction, jealousy of other women, postpartum mental health - we cover it all. If you enjoyed this episode, please do rate and review!

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. My guest today is Emma J Nunsworth. She is an excellent novelist and screenwriter. You might know her from her book Animals, which was adapted into a film recently where she was nominated for a BAFDA Award for Outstanding debut. The book is about Laura and Tyler two young women who are tearing up the streets of Manchester and Catlin Moran called it with Nail and I for girls.
1:34.0	Emma came on the podcast to talk about her latest novel,
1:37.0	adults, a comedy about a 30-something woman whose life is falling apart,
1:42.0	and the protagonist Jenny has quite something woman whose life is falling apart.
1:42.8	And the protagonist, Jenny, has quite an addictive personality
1:46.9	when it comes to social media.
1:48.7	And really, it sort of portrays
1:50.8	what a lot of us might be going through when we scroll through our phone.
1:54.4	Emma has also just announced that adults is also going to be adapted to the screen
1:59.2	and Emma is going to write the screenplay and it's just so exciting to watch Emma at work doing all the various
2:05.8	things that she does she is a multi-hiphinate and we get into it in the podcast about all
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