Busy Being Free

Born in London, Emma Forrest began her writing career as a teenage columnist on a national newspaper. By thirty, she had published three novels and exited journalism to work in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Her memoir Your Voice In My Head is a classic of the genre. Emma wrote and directed her first feature Untogether, which premiered at the Tribeca Film festival. Her most recent novel, Royals, was the Radio 2 Book Club pick.

A staggering piece of writing: I had to start it again the minute I finished reading it, and it was just as shocking, absorbing and beautiful on rereading