Emma jane unsworth biography examples

Emma Jane Unsworth has just stepped off the BBC Breakfast set in Salford when we speak.

“I’m just calming myself down – it’s the first live television I’ve done,” she says.

The author is in town to promote Animals, a big screen adaptation of her 2014 novel about friendship and hedonistic living set in Manchester.

The previous night, it was the film’s Manchester premiere at HOME.

Emma says she was touched by the amount of feedback from friends who’d wanted to watch the film together.

“I’m so excited and full of joy and gratitude. I feel like we’ve had such a good time making the film but there’s been a lot of hard work getting here as well, so it does feel like a real celebration,” says the 40-year-old who hails from Prestwich.

She started writing Animals back in 2012, “at a time when I was feeling like I was at a crossroads in my life, and when a lot of