Fifteen-year-old Anais HendRicks’ life may be about to change iRRevocably in a way that would affect heR entiRe futuRe. To distRact fRom an upcoming childRen’s heaRing the officeR in chaRge of the unit takes Anais, along with thRee otheR giRls, on a Reluctant boating tRip to a loch, a single day to anchoR.
Based on chaRacters fRom Jenni Fagan’s classic novel, The Panopticon
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Jenni Fagan (she/her)
Jenni Fagan is an award winning critically acclaimed writer, translated into nine languages. She has published five fiction novels, a sixth is out next year, one non-fiction memoir, eight poetry collections, alongside writing screenplays and Directing.
Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2025, she has also been Scottish Author of the Year, Granta Best of Young British novelist and was recently long listed for the Women’s Prize.
Jenni has written for The Independent, The New York Times and Marie Claire among others. She gained her PhD from The University of Edinburgh, she is a member of Liberty and Royal Literary Fellow.
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Claire Mundell (she/her)
Claire Mundell is an award-winning Executive Producer and Founder of Synchronicity Films. She recently produced The Tattooist of Auschwitz, an Emmy-nominated series and The Tattooist’s Son, an accompanying documentary. In 2023, she won a BAFTA for Best Scripted at the BAFTA Scotland Awards for the BBC series Mayflies. Other credits include BBC/ABC thriller The Cry plus features Only You and Weekend.
Current projects include The Young Team for the BBC.
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