© 2017 Nine Network Australia LOVE CHILD RETURNS FOR A FOURTH SEASON - BIRTHS, DEATHS AND A SHOCKING MIX-UP… Australia’s favourite drama, Love Child, has returned for a fourth season, premiered on May 2 after The Voice on Channel Nine. Viewers will welcome back their favourites, including multiple Logie Award-winner Jessica Marais (Dr Joan Millar), Mandy McElhinney (Matron), Miranda Tapsell (Martha), Harriet Dyer (Patty), Sophie Hensser (Viv) and Andrew Ryan (Dr Simon Bowditch). It’s 1972 and eight months since we last saw Dr Joan Miller (Marais), who is now heavily pregnant and fighting for her right to continue her career after the birth of her child. But she encounters a major obstacle in the form of charismatic Dr Andrew Patterson (Hamill), a Vietnam veteran and her new boss at Kings Cross General Hospital. Matron’s control of Stanton House is tested by three pregnant teens that play havoc with the rules: Debbie (Sophia Forrest), a hell-raiser from a privileged family; Elena (Danielle Catanzariti), an Italian migrant whose pregnancy threatens the safety of her relatives in Australia and Italy and Rita (Darcie Irwin-Simpson), a novice nun who has a mysterious “immaculate conception”, just what is the mother of this miracle child hiding? . This series will also see a shocking mistake and cover-up by Matron that threatens to destroy lives and careers. How long can she carry on with the burden of this secret? To accompany the series returning to the Nine Network, Sony Music Entertainment is releasing the accompanying ‘Love Child Season Four’ official Soundtrack on June 16 – the last episode for Season Four will air on July 4. The soundtrack features re-recordings from Sony Music Entertainment’s leading artists; Stan Walker, Cyrus, Dami Im, Jess & Matt, Samantha Jade, Adam Harvey along with original recordings of everyone’s favorites from the early 70’s.