When Lord Karan Bilimoria, a crossbench member of the House of Lords, former chancellor of the University of Birmingham and founder of Cobra Beer, set out to capture his mother\u2019s story, he began with a hurdle that many families will recognise: she wasn\u2019t convinced there was anything remarkable enough to put between two covers.<\/p>\n\n
What followed, though, was a demonstration of exactly why LifeBook projects matter. As conversations with her interviewer unfolded, Yasmin’s confidence grew and the process became something that she genuinely looked forward to \u2013 thoughtful, collaborative and full of unexpected detail. With her input shaping everything from the edits to the photographs, Yasmin’s book became a shared family endeavour and, ultimately, a bound volume that she can hold, enjoy and pass on. And, as so often happens, the making of a LifeBook didn\u2019t just preserve memories \u2013 it brought new ones to the surface, including stories that Lord Bilimoria himself had never heard before.<\/p>\n\n
At Mansion House, in London, Lord Bilimoria spoke with LifeBook Memoirs co-founder Roy Mo\u00ebd about his mother\u2019s experience of creating her private autobiography: what it meant to record her life in her own words, how the project differed from a more formal account of his father\u2019s life written years before and why the care and quality of the final book mattered so much to the Bilimoria family.<\/p>\n\n