Monkey diary. Diaries 1957-1982. Birkin D.

For little Jane, a monkey in a costume of Zhokey - Manki - was the most beloved toy that she did not let out of her hands. For adult Jane, plush manking became a talisman - she took him at all important meetings, did not get on the plane without him and did not go to the hospital. When Serge Hensbur died, Jane put manking in his coffin.

maybe because Jane had no close friends in childhood, she was used to trusting all her secrets of semolina. An notes in the diaries that Jane kept from the age of eleven are also addressed to a plush confident. But in Jane Birkin herself there is nothing from the doll - this is a passionate and bold woman, honest with herself and with others. The singer, actress and style icon was not afraid to challenge the Hanjams and hypocrites: she sang with Gensbur the scandalously known “I love you. I am not you either ”, appeared in public in shocking toilets, remaining at the same time a faithful wife, a loving mother and caring daughter.

The diaries of the incomparable Jane Birkin - an exciting story about an entire era and people living in it, sincere and frank.