What Will the Neighbours Think
Love, Loss and Showbiz
$32.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2026
Summary
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 di…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923514720 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923514725 |
| Author: | Robyn Bishop |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 233mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Robyn Bishop
Robyn Bishop has a background in acting and education and began her writing career as a playwright. Her play Only the End was published by Currency Press in 2005, followed by The Show Must Go On — based on the life of Jan Russ — published by Australian Plays Transform in 2018. Both works were staged at The Carlton Courthouse in Melbourne under the La Mama Theatre umbrella.
She is also an accomplished fiction writer. Her debut novel, The Girl in the Bath, appeared in 2014, and her short story “The Lonely Road” featured in It’s All Connected, an anthology of feminist fiction and poetry (Spinifex Press, 2022). Her second novel, The Rust Red Land, was published by Spinifex Press in 2023.
In 2024, Robyn was awarded a Moonee Valley City Council writing residency to develop What Will the Neighbours Think? — her collaboration with Jan Russ.
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