Mel Jacob is an experienced journalist and scriptwriter. Her journalism has been published in The Good Weekend, Sunday Life, The Brisbane Times, The Adelaide Advertiser, Radio National, Kidspot, MCA and The Australian Museum. She was a finalist for Best Comedy Riverina Short Film Festival 2004, Ford Mummy Blogger 2009 and 2010, winner of the first ever blogging competition at MotherInc 2009. In 2011 her manuscript Mother of the Year was short-listed for the Harper Collins Manuscript Development Award.
'Life in prison: what's it really like?'
'What happens to you, your kids, your life when a partner is jailed?' - Mel Jacobs interviewed on ABC Radio National's Life Matters
Listen to Mel Jacob on the Midday Interview with Margaret Throsby
Published: August 2016
The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.