It Wasn't Meant To Be Like This

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers (australia) Pty Ltd
Publisher Place: New South Wales
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 482 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australias most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson.Lisa Wilkinson has lived her life in the public eye. One of Australias most admired and respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has graced our television screens for many years, where she has shared and shaped many important national conversations. Australians of all ages love and respect her warmth, empathy, humour, integrity and fighting spirit. But it all could have been so different... When she was at school, Lisa found herself wishing she could just disappear. Subjected to horrific bullying as a teenager, she survived by making herself as small as possible, but she swore when she left school that no one was ever again going to determine who she was - or limit what she was capable of. That determination and drive led to Lisa blazing an unprecedented and enormously successful trail through the Australian media and cultural landscape for more than four decades. She was only twenty-one when she became the editor of Dolly - the youngest ever appointed to a national womens magazine - and four years later, after almost tripling the circulation, Lisa was head-hunted by the late Kerry Packer, who offered her the editorship of the iconic Cleo magazine. which she transformed into the number-one bestselling womens lifestyle magazine per capita in the world. Moving to television, first on Channel Tens Beauty and the Beast, then as host of the Seven Networks Weekend Sunrise, she went on to spend almost eleven years as co-host of the Nine Networks Today Show, becoming its longest-serving female co-host, and where her talents took the program to the number-one spot in breakfast television. Lisa then caused a media storm in Australia and the world when she moved to the Ten Network as co-host of its prime-time award-winning program The Project. Lisas interviews with everyone from George Clooney to Lady Gaga to Sophia Loren to Kim Kardashian, to every one of the countrys last eight prime ministers, always create headlines. But it is her most recent work and the leading role she took in uncovering the misogyny in Parliament House, with her powerful, exclusive interview with Brittany Higgins, of which Lisa says she is most proud. A fierce campaigner for women and gender equality, Lisa has fought her own personal battles on this front, and continues to lead the way. It Wasnt Meant to Be Like This, the story of how a young girl from Campbelltown came to be such a force in Australian cultural life, is honest, warm, funny, engaging - and powerfully inspirational.

ISBN: 9781460750179