The Tick of Two Clocks : A Tale of Moving On by Bakewell, Joan

Author: Bakewell, Joan

Memoirs

Published on 2 September 2021 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 192 pages
143 x 225 x 24 | 320g

‘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 f