Joan Bakewell

When 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'....

All The Nice Girls captures the danger and excitement of wartime Britain with a sweeping story of heroic deeds and painful separations, illicit love and battles at sea, and above all, of the poignancy of longing and loss....

In Stop the Clocks, Joan Bakewell muses on all she has lived through and how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind....