About the book: 2020 / This book is a continuation of “The Monkey’s Diary,” which Jane Birkin wrote from 1957 to 1982. Jane talks about her life after her breakup with Serge Gainsbourg. It included new love and the birth of a child, the ups and downs of an artistic career, difficult relationships with older older daughters and the joy of their first successes in art, touring and recording discs, participation in theatrical productions, charity concerts in war-torn Yugoslavia, roles in the author's cinema, illness, loss of loved ones, birth of grandchildren... When Gainsbourg died, Jane put her talisman with him in the coffin - the stuffed monkey Monkey, which she had never parted with before; When her eldest daughter Kate died, Jane closed the diary she had kept since she was eleven and never wrote another line in it..