Roger Lewis

Beauty and the beast: Jane Birkin’s love affair with Serge Gainsbourg

Serge was moody, sarcastic and violent, but Jane was ‘emotionally completely tied to him’, as she admits in her diaries

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Credit: Getty Images
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  • Munkey Diaries: 1957–1982

    Jane Birkin

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 299, £20

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