Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind

Biographies & Memoirs

Bakewell, Joan

Memoirs

Virago Press Ltd.

<p>'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The TimesOld age is no longer a blip in the calendar, just a few declining years before the end. Old age is now a major and important part of life: It should command as much thought - even anxiety - as teenagers give to exam results and young marrieds how many children to have . . . I am in my 80s and moving towards the end of my life. But in a more actual sense, I have moved from my dear home of 50 odd years into another . . . the home where I will be until the end. Writing here of how it has happened is in a sense a reconciliation with what cannot be avoided, but which can be confrontedWhen Joan Bakewell, Labour Peer, author and famous champion of the older people's right to a good and fruitful life, decided that she could no longer remain in her old home, she had to confront what she calls 'the next segment of life.' Disposing of things accumulated during a long life, saying goodbye to her home and the memories of more than fifty years, thinking about what is needed for downsizing - all suddenly became urgent and emotional tasks. And then there was managing family expectations. Some new projects such as planning the colours and layout of a new, smaller flat, were exciting and some things - the ridding herself of books, paintings, memento - took courage. So much of the world is on the move- voluntarily or not - and so many people are living to a great old age. In using the tale of her own life , Joan Bakewell tells us a story of our times and how she is learning to live to the sound and tune of The Tick of Two Clocks: the old and the new.</p>

The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

Virago

Parenting & Relationships

The Heart of "Heart of the Matter"

Humor & Entertainment

BBC Books

Belief

Duckworth

All the Nice Girls

Magna Large Print Books

With the world's major religions now playing a key role in political affairs, it is time to examine how many and various are the beliefs people have.Within leading religions we now see the development of dissent and extremism leading to dangers for us all.  Against this background, we are all forced to examine what we each believe and how that fits with the emerging world picture.  Each individual - religious or not - has an outlook on matters such as why we are here, what life is for, whether there is a creative force behind it all, and what should guide our personal morality.  They may be writers such as Phillip Pullman; scholars such as Karen Armstrong; or filmmakers, such as David Puttnam.  But they each have a thoughtful and highly intelligent contribution to make to the growing debate about belief.  These conversations, selected from Joan Bakewell's BBC Radio series of the same name, constitute a broad and surprising insight into what thinking people think.

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Overlook Hardcover

All The Nice Girls

Romance

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