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    HOME AND AWAY

    Sep 17, 2021 3 minutes
    By Rachel Cooke

    oan Bakewell’s scanty new book is a kind of sequel – an outsized PS – to Stop the Clocks, which came out in 2016. Like that memoir, it too is preoccupied with the many preparations the clear-eyed should in all conscience make before kissing the world goodbye. Also like that book, it is interested in stuff: in cushions and vases, in exhibition posters and kitchen mixers; in all the accumulations of a long life. This

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