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Emma Jane Unsworth

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okay i understand why people don't give this book more stars, BUT i am in love with british authors and actually european authors in general and their style of writing and just the flow of their books. i loved this book and thought it was a smart satire novel as it's witty and very funny. jenny is very unhappy and quite selfish, but she does grow as a person! even though it was maybe from a shitty person to a less shitty one... but i did think jenny is relatable and authentic which made it easy to read. it's a bit dramatic, but i think this book is a great read in terms of understanding how social media affectts people's mental health. overall i enjoyed every minute of this and i just bought it to have a physical copy… (meer)
 
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Ellen-Simon | 11 andere besprekingen | Dec 21, 2023 |
Emma Jane Unsworth's Animals is a tale of drink and drug fuelled hedonism in Manchester that takes in love, death, happiness and fucking up, and spits out a frank portrayal of female friendship.

It's a rare beast in its portrayal of female friendship as anything but cosy. The two main characters, Laura and Tyler, are extreme but truthful renditions of women in their thirties who hide from the pressure to grow up and take responsibility for their lives in endless days and nights of excess.

In Laura, Unsworth gives us a bright, working class woman, educated into the world of middle class privilege, and constantly at sea as a result.

It's an entertaining novel that deals with the serious things in life and explores how to be true to yourself when society, friends and family expect you to be something more conventional - a wife, a mother, sober, reliable - and your alleged best friend is using you as a prop.
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missizicks | 2 andere besprekingen | Sep 30, 2022 |
If the stardust from Hunter S. Thompson’s burial rocket floated down and landed in the Instagram server room, you would get “Adults” by Emma Jane Unsworth.

The reader follows Jenny, a 35-year-old columnist for an online feminist zine, who finds her real and virtual existence unspooling at a rapid pace. It’s as if life went shopping at a boutique ceiling fan store, just to overpay for shipping, receiving and installation, then tap it off with the obvious tossing of sh*t into the spinning blades (made from sustainably farmed bamboo.) Unsworth’s wit sparks on each page as her main character simultaneously lives off and dies from the feeding tube of social media. It’s a battle we all recognize where we strive to be liked by others while failing to focus on whether we like ourselves.

I find myself doubly lucky because I won this from a Goodreads giveaway and that I have discovered a new literary voice to become (safely, from a distance) obsessed with.
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LukeGoldstein | 11 andere besprekingen | Aug 10, 2021 |
I was looking forward to reading Adults. I really liked the way that Unsworth’s previous novel, Animals, was in your face and unapologetic. While I think you could say the same of Adults, the overall story just didn’t work for me. It felt disjointed and inconsistent, jumping from issue to issue but never quite resolving them. It was also difficult to find a redeeming feature in Jenny, the main character.

Jenny is quite obsessed with Instagram, to the point where a stale croissant in shot makes her quite agitated as to what her followers will think. She starts the novel by appearing to live for likes, comments and influencer followers. She’s also particularly obsessed with one Instagrammer, Suzy Brambles. It appears that her work and social life is suffering due to her social media addiction. She ignores her best friend who is frankly asking for help and checking Instagram during sex seemed to be the final straw in her relationship. Jenny is truly alone, until her millennial boarders desert her and her mother moves in. She and her mother have a very complex relationship and it’s odd initially to see why Jenny would let her mother back into her life. But then the novel starts exploring Jenny’s past and her pain, which starts to explain why she is desperate for attention and wanting to be loved. The problem is that Jenny doesn’t always go about it in the best way, making for a few too many awkward, cringy confrontations. Sometimes it seems like Jenny is deliberately setting herself up for a fall. At other times she seems completely clueless and needy.

The story is frank, raw and honest but it’s rather disjointed. It’s more about Jenny and her character rather than being plot driven. I feel this would have worked better if I could have liked or related to Jenny more. She’s not particularly likeable. She’s a mess. Although she does start to change towards the end of the book and get help, it was too little too late. I couldn’t see why her best friend forgave her, as Jenny was incredibly self-centred. It seems that Adults tried to do too much, taking on social media addiction, relationships, love and loss all in one. It sometimes misses the mark in being funny or satirical and goes into awkward silence territory. I did like the texts and social media comments – love it or loathe it, this is the society we live in.

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