{"product_id":"centre-of-the-bed-an-autobiography","title":"Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDame Joan Bakewell was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2019. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241372406104,"sku":"9780340823118","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780340823118_1fba4a84-3818-4d17-bb65-c826930e60c9.jpg?v=1765215034","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/centre-of-the-bed-an-autobiography","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}