The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography

The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography
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Publisher : Sceptre
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781529362183
ISBN-13 : 1529362180
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Book Synopsis The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by : Joan Bakewell

Download or read book The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography written by Joan Bakewell and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer 'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking chunks out of the Berlin Wall when it fell...draped in the kaftan of Sixties sophistication.' Independent on Sunday Joan Bakewell's life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn, Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller et al, London at its most exciting in the swinging sixties and the world of the media and the arts from the 60s to the present. As she reflects on the choices she has made and the influences that shaped her, she confronts painful childhood memories of her mother's behaviour and describes both her affair with Harold Pinter and her two marriages with remarkable honesty. Throughout she uses her own experience to explore the extraordinary change in women's roles during her lifetime. This is no ordinary celebrity autobiography but a memoir that is beautifully written, frank and absorbing, which draws a thought-provoking portrait of Britain in the last 70 years. Dame Joan Bakewell was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2019.


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