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Animals will premiere at Sundance film festival in a few weeks! We’re all so proud. I’m packing for Utah. Extra socks. And courage.

I do hope you love it.

Animals the movie started shooting on March 12th in Dublin, starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. What they are making – with visionary director Sophie Hyde and an ace international team – is blowing my lid off already. I think I want to live on a film set forever, please. Also I felt a bit like John Malkovich when John Malkovich goes inside John Malkovich’s head…

More soon…

I wrote a piece about childbirth for The Pool and you can read it here. WARNING: it ain’t pretty.

So I appreciate the intense irony of this, but I wrote an essay about social-media anxiety for Radio 3 and it was made pick of the week on Radio 4, and you can listen to me reading it here if you enjoy the sound of someone audibly squirming:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gnc3s

Big news! Supreme Manc ginge Holliday Grainger (Great Expectations, Cinderella, The Borgias) will play Laura in Animals the movie – directed by the the incredibly talented Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays). More details over on Screen International: http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/cannes/holliday-grainger-52-tuesdays-director-team-on-animals/5103976.article

Here’s me, Sophie (middle) and Sarah Brocklehurst – the producer who’s made it all happen – in Manchester location-scouting back in March. I was pregnant. I think that explains my strange tilted head.

Shout-out to Celine Haddad and everyone at Creative England who has helped with the project’s development. I really appreciate the chance to try writing a script.

I’ll be speaking at the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre in London next Sunday 13th March – starts 6.30pm…

Delighted that Animals is the Emily Books book of the month for February – thank you!

https://www.emilybooks.com/books/animals/