What Will the Neighbours Think: Love, Loss and Showbiz

From forced adoption to prime-time television — a life lived with grit, grace and a touch of showbiz sparkle.

In 1965, Jan Russ was a young Melbourne woman whose world fell apart overnight. Unmarried, pregnant and abandoned, she was pushed into a system that punished single mothers and stole their babies in the name of respectability. The loss of her daughter would shadow her life for decades — a wound carried quietly while the rest of the world saw her shine.
And shine she did. Jan found ref...