![]() ![]() If this conceit sounds childlike, it’s perhaps because Birkin is constantly infantilised by the men in her life. ![]() Her musings are directed to Munkey, the stuffed toy that stays at her side as the diary skips into adulthood, from first film auditions to her marriage to Bond maestro John Barry, then through the highs and wine-drenched lows of her 13-year romantic and creative partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. ![]() It’s ironic that this icon of French style had such a patrician British upbringing, between Chelsea and the Isle of Wight. Her father David was a naval officer who assisted the Free French during World War II her mother was Judy Campbell, stage actress and muse to Noël Coward. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīirkin’s diaries, first published in her adoptive homeland of France in 2018, begin as a jumble of childhood scribbles about family and her Blyton-esque boarding school. ![]()
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