Cover subtitle: The captivating story of one of Australia's best-loved actresses. Gwen had her first well-known role as Emmy in the longest-running Australian radio serial Blue Hills, and hosted a radio program on Australia's Macquarie Network from 1945 to 1974. She also had a radio show in Sydney opposite Gordon Chater. Her radio programme ran for 26 years. Plumb had a long career in the theatre, was a cast member of the debut season of the Old Tote Theatre Company, travelled extensively overseas to interview celebrities for her own radio programme, and once quipped that she "played in just about every form of public entertainment except the circus". She is probably best remembered for her portrayal of "gossip", Ada Simmonds in the Australian soap opera The Young Doctors for its entire November 1976 – March 1983 run. Other notable roles were in the mini-series The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange in the mid 1980s. She acted in Neighbours as Mrs. Forbes in 1985, where she appeared in scenes opposite Alan Dale, with whom she had starred in The Young Doctors. A candid, disarming and often hilarious autobiography.