Stop the clocks : thoughts on what I leave behind /
by Bakewell, Joan.
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BookPublisher: London : Virago, 2016Description: 296 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780349006093 (hbk.) :; 0349006091 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 823.914 BAKSubject(s): Bakewell, Joan | Aging -- Psychological aspects | Death -- Psychological aspects | Literature | LiteratureSummary: 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. 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.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 823.914 BAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002924442X |
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| 823.912 WIL Through the magic door: | 823.912 WIL Good little ship / | 823.914 AHL The bucket: memories of an inattentive childhood | 823.914 BAK Stop the clocks : thoughts on what I leave behind / | 823.914 BIN Maeve Binchy: the biography | 823.914 BRI Notes from the sofa / | 823.914 BUR The real life of Anthony Burgess |
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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. 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.
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