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Stop the Clocks - Thoughts on What I Leave Behind (Paperback)
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Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has
been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster,
journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the
theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio
plays, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre of The Bed. Now
in her 80s, she is still broadcasting. Though it may look as though
she is now part of the establishment - a Dame, President of
Birkbeck College, a Member of the House of Lords as Baroness
Bakewell of Stockport - she's anything but and remains outspoken
and courageous. In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived
through, how the world has changed and considers the things and
values she will be leaving behind. Stop the Clocks is a book of
musings, a look back at what she was given by her family, at the
times in which she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life such
as the knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with
hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of lovers, of
betrayal. She talks of the present, of her family, of friends and
literature - and talks too of what she will leave behind. This is a
thoughtful, moving and spirited book as only could be expected from
this extraordinary woman.
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