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    On my radar: Emma Jane Unsworth’s cultural highlights

    The novelist on William Blake, crying through Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and an insightful poem about teenage masturbation
    by Emma Jane Unsworth Jan 26, 2020 2 minutes
    Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I could listen to Claudia Winkleman all day. She’s so clever, with a real generosity of spirit.’ Photograph: Alex Lake/The Guardian

    Born in Bury, Greater Manchester, in 1978, Emma Jane Unsworth studied English literature at the University of Liverpool and received an MA from Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing. Formerly a journalist and columnist for The Big Issue in the North, Unsworth has published a number of short stories and two novels including 2014’s Animals, which won a Jerwood Fiction Uncoveredprize and was adapted as a film in. Her latest novel,

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