Life, death and Serge: Jane Birkin reveals her insecurities in emotional memoir

The singer opens up about her tumultuous relationships with the ‘bad boy’ of French music and her late daughter

Jane Birkin will always be France’s favourite “petite Anglaise”, but few will have even guessed at the depth of the insecurity suffered by the “little English girl” – until today.

The British-born actress and singer captured Gallic hearts when, aged 21 and the epitome of London’s Sixties cool, she took up with singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg – 20 years her senior and the bad boy of French popular music.

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