Stop the Clocks - Thoughts on What I Leave Behind

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Bakewell, Bakewell Joan
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780349006116
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00611-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, English, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, 21st Century, Press & journalism, Radio & television industry, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, News media and journalism, Film, TV and Radio industries, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs