Slags

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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADULTS AND ANIMALS

'Compulsive and hilarious, like a brilliant gossip with your best friend. Emma Jane Unsworth is my favourite' Sara Pascoe

'Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful' DOLLY ALDERTON

‘An amazing writer’ MARGOT ROBBIE

Once a slag, always a slag?

It’s the 1990s. Sarah is 15, obsessed with boy bands, sex and getting drunk on Malibu. Most of all, she’s hung up on her teacher, Mr Keaveney.

Fast forward 26 years. Sarah is 41, the last of the party girls. But the mad nights out are losing their shine. And her teenage dreams are now distant, queasy memories.

There’s only one thing for it: an adventure. So, Sarah sets off with her sister Juliette on a whisky-fuelled campervan trip across Scotland.

The sisters have never been alike, but they know all the dark corners of each other’s history – and it’s time to dig up some demons, kicking and screaming.

Because the things that once defined us shouldn’t define us forever, should they?

Adults was the UK’s #6 bestselling hardback, The Sunday Times chart 9th February 2020 / Margot Robbie talking about Animals, as quoted in CHANEL’s short film segment, ‘In the library with Margot Robbie’

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'Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful' DOLLY ALDERTON

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'Compulsive and hilarious, like a brilliant gossip with your best friend. Emma Jane Unsworth is my favourite. She understands what it is to be a modern woman, and makes me feel better about it' SARA PASCOE

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'An amazing writer' MARGOT ROBBIE

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'10/10 book name and 10/10 book cover… funny, frank and at times heartfelt' VOGUE

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'A riotous road trip… candid and comic, Slags is Thelma and Louise with a campervan' Shahidha Bari, GUARDIAN

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'Irresistibly authentic… Unsworth has a knack for sketching out nuanced characters who feel viscerally alive' INDEPENDENT

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'A funny, frank exploration of how messy growing up can be' HEAT

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'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL

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'Unsworth’s third – and best – novel' GRAZIA

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'The humour has a serrated edge… deep and affecting' THE TIMES

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'Hilarious and relatable… with no shortage of genuine emotion' IRISH INDEPENDENT

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‘This new book from one of our favourite British authors is set to be her best yet. A frank exploration of sisterhood, Scottish road trips and leaving one’s demons in the past' ELLE

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'This exuberantly funny road trip is also a love letter to the fractious bond between siblings' GUARDIAN, Summer Reading: 50 hottest books

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'Deeply wise and hilarious' IRISH TIMES

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'Unsworth…writes real, complicated women with all their contradictions intact' SUNDAY MAIL

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'The strongest prose stylist of our age… so brilliant, warm and funny' EMMA FORREST

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'Emma Jane Unsworth is one of the best writers to ever live – fact – and Slags is already an early contender for my book of the decade. This novel is somehow hilariously funny, while also being scathing and searingly honest about the world and compellingly readable. I read this in one go, unable to put it down, and I still now can't stop thinking about Sarah and Juliette. I love love loved it and will be telling everyone I know to read it – while also calling them slags' LUCY VINE

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User Reviews

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Such a great book! Loved the Mancunian nostalgia and the depiction of the sisters' relationship - lots of references I could relate to, written in a chatty and laugh out loud style that made listening a joy. Excellent narration too.
sardow 14/08/2025

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