I really enjoyed this book! Since watching the Get Back documentary I have been fascinated by the Beatles and the whole 60's music and celebrity culture. I read this book partly to find out more about Pattie Boyd but Jenny's story on it's own was fascinating. I didn't know much about her relationship with Mick Fleetwood and this gave me a great insight into Fleetwood Mac and the chaotic lifestyle of all of the band members. I knew there was a drug culture but didn't realise quite how much!
Jenny giving up her career and her feelings of worthlessness as she played second fiddle to Mick was really quite sad and I was happy to learn how she continued her education and seemed to find herself again. I was glad she wrote positively of George Harrison and wasn't surprised to have my opinion of Eric Clapton as being a 'not so nice' character confirmed.

Jenny Boyd is the sister of Pattie, who was married to George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Jenny was married, twice, to Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac.
The sisters had a difficult upbringing. Their mother hardly knew their father but was engaged to him when he was involved in an accident and disfigured. She went through with the marriage, although he was never the same after the trauma. The family lived in Kenya for a time and then the marriage broke up. Jenny didn't see her father again for many decades.
I enjoyed her account of London and Los Angeles in the 1960s. In London she was a model for a trendy design house. She, Patti, George Harrison and others famously went to LA to experience the emerging flower power era, mysticism and drugs.
After an on/off relationship with Fleetwood they seem destined to be together and marry. But the marriage isn't a success for Jenny. Fleetwood is wholly driven by the band and touring, and ignores his wife's emotional needs. They were young when they maried and had children, and this is reflected in what seems like childish behaviour at times with the young children shunted across the Atlantic at times when their parents weren't speaking.

Eventually Jenny returned to England and started representing clinics in America specializing in treating alcoholism and eating disorders. At that time, the US treatments were vastly different from those in the UK. She organised workshops which were very successful and went on to study and become a counsellor. She finally tracked down her father but their reunion is dreadful and his behaviour creepy. It's a tribute to Jenny that she didn't block him from her life but found a way to help him unlock his memories and communicate with her.

Wonderful, engaging memoir. Of course it's full of ludicrous encounters with some of the most celebrated pop stars of the 60s and 70s and the author has some charm it never grates.

This was such an interesting read.
The author was so well-known at the time that it's somehow surprising that she had a life before stardom.
Besides that, and an account of her experiences among Fleetwood mac, the beatles and other 60s stars, there is a good deal of cultural insight.
She links her anecdotes to shifts in the zeitgeist.
She also talks about her own influence on culture such as inspiring 'within you, without you'.

I have to admit, I knew nothing about Jenny Boyd and her relationship with Mick Fleetwood. This autobiography describes the highs and lows associated with her experience of the swinging 60s from fashionable Carnaby St to religious retreats in India with the Beatles and the drug fueled world of the music business in Los Angeles, Although it delves into the day-to-day lives of those who were partners of the music greats, it shines a light on the loneliness, drugs and infidelities. A must for any Fleetwood Mac, Beatles or Eric Clapton fans but remember what they say about never meeting your heroes...

So excited to read this and share my thoughts. With the trailer bring released for Daisy Jones the other day I couldn’t think of a more perfect read to fill the gap until the show premieres.
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Jenny Boyd's extraordinary life is the stuff of movies and novels, a story of incredible people and places at a pivotal time in the 20th century.

As an up-and-coming young model, Jenny found herself at the heart of Carnaby Street in London, immersed in the fashion and pop culture of the Swinging 60s. With boyfriend Mick Fleetwood, sister Pattie Boyd, George Harrison and the rest of the Beatles, she lived the London scene.