Claim: Emily Blunt appeared in a movie based on a book.

My Summer of Love is a 2004 British drama film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne . Based on the novel of the same name by Helen Cross , the film explores the lesbian relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds . Working class Mona -LRB- Natalie Press -RRB- , whose once-hotheaded brother Phil -LRB- Paddy Considine -RRB- became a born-again Christian in prison , meets upper middle class Tamsin -LRB- Emily Blunt , in her theatrical film debut -RRB- who suffers from a lack of love in her family . Filmed in West Yorkshire , the film went on to win a BAFTA .