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Melissa Jacob Melissa Jacob i(9613287 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon In Sickness, in Health ... and in Jail : What Happened When My Husband Surprised Me by Going to Prison for Two Years Melissa Jacob , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2016 9613306 2016 single work autobiography

'Three years ago Melissa Jacob's life took an unexpected twist when her husband was jailed for selling a crossbow and an antique rifle through his online mail-order business. He was a man who'd never even got a speeding ticket, someone who'd wait for the man to turn to green before crossing the road. Now he was facing a four year sentence in a prison world that was utterly alien to everything he'd known before, and his wife and two young children were facing not just a life without a husband and father, but navigating the uncharted waters of having a husband and father doing jail time. In Sickness, In Health ... and in Jail is Melissa's funny and poignant account of trying to raise two children and maintain a respectable middle-class life while her husband is banged up with some of the toughest crims in the state.'
1 Bali Belly Melissa Jacob , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 13 2013; (p. 34-36)
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