Stop the Clocks
Thoughts on What I Leave Behind
$34.80
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2017
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349006116 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349006113 |
| Author: | Joan Bakewell |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
[Joan Bakewell’s] new book is a joy
A wry analysis of the world she will leave - Observer
Heartfelt and fiendishly smart - Sunday TelegraphCompanionable and insightful … by turns entertaining, frank and - when dealing with death and loss - unflinching. It is, then, true to the spirit of a most accomplished woman, who has always had the knack of making whatever she does look easy. When it comes to facing down old age with such style and honesty, that is perhaps the most impressive achievement of all - HeraldShe writes as sensitively as George Orwell … Bakewell is an advertisement for active survival - New StatesmanAbout The Author
Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell has had a fifty year career in broadcasting and is still at it. Born in Stockport, graduated in Cambridge, she has published an autobiography, The Centre of the Bed, and two novels: All the Nice Girls and She’s Leaving Home. She has two children, six grandchildren, and sits in the House of Lords as a Labour Peer. She lives in North London.
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