It Girl The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin

"In It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin, the actress emerges as a glamorous, self-interrogating personality, both like and unlike her public image." -The New Yorker

"Intimate . . . Meltzer captures the sense of carelessness - intentional and benign - that marked Birkin's life." -The Washington Post

"Was Jane Birkin more than a muse? Meltzer (Glossy) makes the case that the gimlet-eyed 1960s style star - an English rose whose youth-quake beauty and decade-plus romance with Serge Gainsbourg led to a long if mercurial career in music, acting and activism - deserves a closer and more generous look." -The New York Times

"Meltzer's new book It Girl charts Birkin's path from her precocious London childhood to her successful French film career, famous partners, late-in-life activism, and the bag that threatened to overshadow it all." -The Rolling Stone

"Sympathetic [and] dutiful." -The Wall Street Journal