Summary: Hello and welcome back, after a short break, to You Wrote The Book, a book based podcast hosted by Simon Savidge. Each fortnight over the coming months he will be joined by a special guest author to discuss their life as a writer and as a reader, from the current novel they have published to the first book they read and everything in between. Simon’s guest for this episode is Emma Jane Unsworth. Emma’s debut novel ‘Hungry, The Stars and Everything’ came out in 2011, was shortlisted for the Portico Prize and won a Betty Trask Award. Now she has returned with Animals, a book which Caitlin Moran says she wish she had written and describes as a Withnail with girls as we follow the lives of two young women and their friendship which often involves lashings of alcohol, sex and drugs. Simon caught up with Emma in a beer garden, to talk about the book, friendship and modern feminism. Simon started by asking her to tell me about the book for fear of ‘man-splaining’… Over the next few episodes Simon will be joined by Emma Healey, Kirsty Wark and may even have a special episode on Fiction Uncovered. If you have any questions for the authors, would like to suggest authors you think Simon should be getting on the show, or simply want to have a natter about books, you can email youwrotethebook@gmail.com or find us on twitter @youwrotethebook. If you want to hear Simon talking more books do join him every other week with Thomas Otto on The Readers Podcast, you can also find him chatting and reviewing book on his blog Savidge Reads. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes where you can find previous episodes with Christos Tsiolkas, Evie Wyld, Alan Bradley, Niccolo Ammaniti, Armistead Maupin, Hannah Kent, Joanne Harris, Patrick Ness, Damian Barr, Maggie O’Farrell and many more.
