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Anita Jacoby uncovers painful secrets hidden by her loving father
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Anita Jacoby has spent decades uncovering the truth about other people, but when she turned the lens on her own father, she was shocked
Anita Jacoby has won awards for her excellence in journalism, uncovering the truth about people and places for almost 40 years from behind the television camera.
But a chance encounter at a dinner party a few years ago forced her to turn the lens on her own family.
What she discovered about her father, Phillip, was painful and extraordinary.
And what she thought would be a family history written only for her nearest and dearest, turned into a book filled with unearthed secrets too important not to share with the rest of the world
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Secrets beyond the Screen is published by Ventura Press.
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