With millions of readers around the world nowadays, there will be a cult following for this author and his work. Neighbours continues tomorrow, where the reason for Toadie and Melanie, and Terese and Paul’s separations will all be explained.

The novel brings together the more significant strands of human sentiment and experience, twining them in a narrative colourful and compelling. Even if your wife might see your feelings as stemming from your own biases, they remain your feelings. Karl Kennedy actor Alan Fletcher was a father figure to Toadie through much of his teenage years, and he and Susan (Jackie Woodburne) have supported Toadie through his numerous marital woes. When she and Joe won a romantic weekend away, Joe declared his feelings for her and Melanie realised her true feelings for him. Paul noticed Rebecca's bond with Michael and not wanting another man to steal his wife, Paul tried to discourage Michael by organising for himself and Rebecca to renew their wedding vows.In her fictional backstory, Rebecca became estranged from her family after she became pregnant at seventeen. She said, "I wouldn't have ever put Mel and Toadie together on paper and I was surprised when their relationship started. Tony Parsons is the well known author of the Sunday Times bestselling crime series Max Wolfe and the multi million selling novel “Man and Boy”.

She explains that she did it after she went to confront him about his affair with Diana and threatening Declan. Of Melanie's feelings towards Joe, Cowden told Mary Fletcher from Inside Soap, "Melanie took a long time to realise how she felt about Joe because she's such a dreamer. There’s only one way to get rid of him before he destroys everything she holds dear - and that’s to get rid of him permanently! She comes back to Erinsborough after Des Clarke contacts her on social media and invites her to lunch with him and Jane Harris. Three disparate lives, each with a past tortuous and stormy, whose chance encounter provokes a series of events extreme and unforeseen.There are some very good twists although I’m not entirely convinced a police team would have bought one of them but hey, this is fiction! Hassan quipped, "Madcap Melanie (played by Lucinda Cowden) was best known on the soap for her foghorn, seal-like laugh and her frequent trips to the local Erinsborough astrologer, Madame Zolga. When Paul sabotages Stephanie Scully ( Carla Bonner) and Libby Kennedy ( Kym Valentine) friendship, Rebecca is disgusted with him and asks him to move out. Set in Cornwall, WHO SHE WAS is a love story, a murder story and a psychological thriller of shifting perception where no-one’s identity is ever quite certain or ever exactly what it seems. Susannah Alexander reported that a "shocking secret from Melanie's past" would be revealed on screen.

If you’re looking for laughs this isn’t the book for you but it’s certainty a gripping listen and one that I would recommend.

I once noted in an unpublished novel that “a poet who looks back becomes a mad man while a mad man who looks forward becomes a poet. Cowden explained to Daniel Kilkelly of Digital Spy that she believed if Neighbours had similar viewing rates in Australia than in the UK, then the serial would not have been cancelled. The "scandal" is a hiccup for Melanie and Toadie's relationship, with actor Ryan Moloney explaining, "He thought he and Mel had an honest, open relationship. In May 2021, Cowden confirmed that she would continue "popping in and out of the show", but hoped for a more permanent role. To harbor anger, hatred, or disgust in my heart for another person, especially a fellow Jew, brings me down as a human being.