Emma Jane Unsworth - Slags (in conversation with Beth Ashley)

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have Emma Jane Unsworth joining us here at The Heath Bookshop, to celebrate the release of her new book, 'Slags'.

Emma will be in conversation with Beth Ashley, author of the book Sluts: The Truth About Sex Shame and What We Can Do To Fight It

Emma and Beth will be in conversation for around an hour. There will then be a book signing afterwards. 
Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter andbestselling novelist. She has written four novels and a memoir, and has writtenextensively as a journalist for various publications from The Guardian to Grazia. Her third novel ADULTS (Borough Press) was an instant bestseller when it was published in 2020. In 2021 Emma published a memoir about post-natal depression, AFTER THE STORM (Wellcome/Profile), which she is currently adapting for television. Emma’s fourth novel, SLAGS, will be published in May 2025 by Borough Press. She is adapting SLAGS for television with The Forge (THE BUCCANEERS).


Slags:
Slag. Noun. A promiscuous woman, of cheap or questionable character. Mostly derogatory. Sometimes affectionate.

Takes one to know one...

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.

Sarah is 15.
SEXUAL CONQUESTS: 2.5 (one only went halfway in)
GREAT LOVES: 1 (her English teacher Mr Keaveney, who definitely feels the same way)
HATES: Her annoying younger sister Juliette
LIKES: Her best friend Nessa, boy band 4Princes

Sarah is 41.
SEXUAL CONQUESTS: Rather not say, but that last one was compellingly awful
GREAT LOVES: Nope
HATES: Millennials like Juliette thinking they’ve got it bad
LIKES: Fellow Gen X-ers

Praise for ADULTS:

'Dazzling... I wish I'd written it' Marian Keyes'

I completely and utterly adored it... heartbreaking' Dolly Alderton'

Incredible' Candice Carty-Williams

'Dazzlingly skewers modern life' SUNDAY TIMES

'I wish I had written this book... Withnail with girls' Caitlin Moran

'A book you'll be talking about for years to come' GUARDIAN

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Beth Ashley is author of Sluts: The Truth About Sex Shame and What We Can Do To Fight It, published by Penguin Random House in 2024. It explores where sex shame came from in the first place, how it's managed to stick around for so long, why we judge others based on the sex they have and what we can do to stop it. She's also creator of The Slut Map, a map project that documents laws affected by sex shame across the world, and is a leading sex and relationships journalist in the UK writing for the likes of The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Face, Mashable, Vogue, Refinery29 and more.