Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MSJT92O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 550 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived through and how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind. This is a thoughtful, moving and spirited book as only could be expected from this extraordinary woman.. Stop the Clocks is a audiobook of musings, a look back at what she was given by her family in 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 has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre of The Bed. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting. Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, a copywriter, a studio manager, a broadcaster, a journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre
"Stop the clocks" according to Andy Geary Stevens. As usual, Joan Bakewell writes in a delightful way and her life history through her own eyes is a pleasure to read. Her views are important and sometimes controversial which makes for interesting reading. Stop the dandelion clocks. SueKich This is not a memoir so much as a trip down memorabilia lane (or “reviewing my times” as Bakewell calls it). There’s a lot of stuff about her, erm, stuff - but one discovers little about her life other than how things have changed. Hospital corner bed-making compared to duvets. Old gramophone records compared to ear buds. Six o’clock tea compared to nouvelle cuisine. And so it goes on. Weightier matters,