The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On - Hardcover

Bakewell, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0349013934 ISBN 13: 9780349013930

Verlag: Virago, 2021

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From the acclaimed broadcaster, a story of moving on, a tale of downsizing and the essentials of a good old age.

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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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Old age is no longer a blip in the calendar, just a few declining years before the end. Old age is now a major, important part of life. It should command as much thought as teenagers give to exam results and young people contemplating a future life together.

I am in my 80s and moving towards the end of my life. In a literal sense I have moved from my home of fifty odd years into another . . . the home where I will live out my days. Writing here of how it happened is both a reconciliation of what cannot be avoided, and a confrontation with the inevitable.

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Joan Bakewell, broadcaster, author, Labour Peer and former champion of older people, decided to deal with what she calls 'the next slice of life'.

Disposing of things accumulated during a long life, saying goodbye to her home and memories of over fifty years, thinking about the significance of downsizing . . . all suddenly became urgent and emotional tasks. There was also practical planning to do: the layout and design of a new and smaller space, getting rid of the overflow of books, paintings, mementos. It all took resolve and courage.

Joan Bakewell uses the tale of her own life to reflect on the story of our times and how she is learning to live to the Tick of Two Clocks, the old and the new.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0349013934
• ISBN 13: 9780349013930
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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