Tag: Liverpool Literary Festival 2025

• Emma Jane Unsworth Opens Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 with “Slags” – A Bold, Bittersweet Dive into Sisterhood and Self-Discovery

  

  Award-winning novelist Emma Jane Unsworth opened the Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 with a lively discussion of her new book Slags — a darkly funny, deeply moving story of sisterhood, growing up in 1990s Manchester, and rediscovering yourself at forty. Inspired by Unsworth’s own teenage diaries and Take That fandom, Slags blends humour and heartbreak across…

  Alison Little

  18.10.2025

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