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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • 12.9 x 19.7 x 2.3 cm

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'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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  • Author

    Joan Bakewell

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Hodder & Stoughton

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    253g

  • Dimensions

    12.9 x 19.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780340823118

  • ISBN-10

    0340823119

  • Eden Code

    4787589

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