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Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, which featured their internationally controversial hit song 'Je t'aime...moi no plus'. She has also enjoyed a notable career as an actress in British and French cinema, including Blow-Up, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun. And then there is the Birkin bag... Throughout these years Jane has been keeping a diary: I've been keeping a journal since I was eleven, writing it to my confidante, the stuffed monkey won in a tombola: Munkey. He has slept by my side, shared my life with John, Serge, Jacques, and been witness to every joy and sadness. Before my children arrived wreaking havoc on my life, I left Munkey in Serge's arms, in the casket where he lay, like a pharaoh. My monkey, protecting him in the after-life. As I re-read my journals, it seems obvious to me that we don't change. What I was twelve years old, I am today. Newspapers are obviously unfair, giving different versions of everything, but here, there is only my version. On principle, I haven't changed anything, and believe me, looking back, I would have preferred to have wiser reactions than I did . . . We thought we knew nearly everything about Jane Birkin. Her book not only re-creates the flamboyant era of Swinging London and Saint-Germain-des-Pres in the 1970s, it also lets us into the everyday life of an exceptional woman.Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139781474619660
eBay Product ID (ePID)18046570690
Product Key Features
Book TitleMunkey Diaries
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicBooks
GenreBiographies & True Stories
AuthorJane Birkin
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height232 mm
Item Weight400 g
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJane Birkin
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- 03 Jan, 2021
A fun read !
Interesting insight into the "in" people of that age . Jane's frank and amusing honesty and much angst , has made this a good read for me . A good break from my usual type of rather heavy reading material !Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
