Lisa Wilkinson pauses just inside the entrance to Sydney’s Waverley Cemetery and rummages in her handbag. “I’m just going to put some lip gloss on because I’ve been talking all day,” she says. The former television presenter has rushed here from a book signing in the city.
She dabs on some pale pink balm as the mid-afternoon autumn sun throws gold across a backdrop of marble obelisks, leaning headstones and weathered statuary and on to Wilkinson’s styled hair. Her face still carries traces of heavy television makeup.
