Jennifer Juniper: A journey beyond the muse Paperback – 23 February 2023

Jenny Boyd, I love your book. You are so open and honest. The 60’s were crazy times. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. I loved to go to concerts in Golden Gate Park. I remember seeing Jefferson Airplane perform there. Oh, those were the days. I think this book gives the readers such a true insight of the 60’s and everything that was happening in Jenny’s life. How I wish I could speak with her. Yet, her book comes as close as I’ll ever get to knowing her. It’s a beautiful book. The ups and downs are all so real. Your heart breaks for Jenny. This book is for anyone who grew up in this era and for those of us who loved the music of this time. Thank you Jenny Boyd!

This book is everything you want and more. I have read — no I have savored every single page, every sentence, every word. The beautiful lady on the cover whose name is Jenny Boyd tells her life’s story. She paints a vivid and enchanting picture of the early days of the hippies, the 70s music scene in America and she has every right to do so. Jenny — ex-wife of drummer Mick Fleetwood & Ian Wallace, sister in law of the Beatles very own George Harrison as well as Eric Clapton, muse to the one and only Donovan, who titled a song Jennifer Juniper, just for her.If you are looking for sensational, lustful stories about Rock and Roll stars, gory details about the music world, this book is all wrong. She tells stories alright, because she‘s met them all, the Beatles, Clapton, Donovan, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Ronny Wood and obviously Fleetwood Mac, but she doesn’t indulge in the myths. She brings to us an honest, very personal but none the less enchanting and captivating portrayal of the time and the people passing through her life.The book is very much an autobiography but still a must for every lover of music and musicians. Upon first picking up the book I was glued to it just flying over the pages as it really is so well written. She makes you feel like you are right there with her in San Francisco in the late 60s experiencing the early stages of the growing hippie movement. She tells about her own journey of growth and how she was able to finally find a purpose in her life. The entire book is very self reflective which is a relieving personality trade in a world full of self absorbed, self-selling celebrities.Jenny Boyd, who has a PhD in psychology to add to her exceptional writing skills and incredible life experiences is made of the perfect material to write a book about her life‘s journey and make it readable like a fascinating novel. Conclusively spoken — the comments on the back of the cover say it all — go get this book and buckle up for one hell of a ride.

Tolles Buch. Einfach cool und mit Herzblut geschrieben. Ein wirklich gelungenes Zeitdokument. Sehr empfehlenswert, nicht nur für Fleetwood Mac Fans.

A powerful attestation to finding your own way in the world of rock 'n' roll and love, Jenny Boyd's autobiography is a captivating, showstopping story of an amazing woman who has faced it all and come out the other side.Along with the likes of Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and her sister, Pattie Boyd, Jenny Boyd is seen as one of the defining faces of the Swinging Sixties, having modelled for designers such as Foale and Tuffin. After a trip to San Francisco in 1967 and discovering transcendental meditation, Jenny quit her modelling career, later saying modelling was a 'waste of her time'.In March 2020, her autobiography was published, titled 'Jennifer Juniper', after the song which Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan wrote about her. I wanted a copy of her book badly, but only got round to obtaining one in late May... but my God, from the first page I was hooked.Starting from her early days in Kenya, Jenny's book seemed so personal that it was like a window to her soul. Every page was like a personal diary, a recollection of what most of us would regard as our deepest, most private thoughts and feelings - but not Jenny.Jenny, who twice married drummer of Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood, and then later married drummer Ian Wallace, is a muse beyond words and inspired songs which are still loved today. Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones told her that she had inspired one of his songs - though to this day she doesn't know which one it was.'Jennifer Juniper' seemed to focus on the personal life of Jenny Boyd, rather than that of the music, which I feel was a fresh take on something which has been exhausted; in the last fifteen years, there have been biographies and autobiographies published regularly, but none touched me quite as this one did. It tugged at my heartstrings and made me ache with longing, embarrassment, love and every other emotion which was covered in the admittedly short book... I loved how the book was written and felt that it was beyond personal, and that was what made it so easy to read and relate to and be a part of. Jenny included you in her past, bringing you into the loop and telling you secrets which I assume would only have been told to close friends, or even kept within the family.When she found her calling later in life, the way that she wrote about it was inspiring. To read about a woman who had gone through so much and then found the thing which she was meant to do was truly special and proved that a dog is never too old to be taught new tricks (pardon the idiom). It seems that Jenny found her mantra, and is still following it and helping others.It truly was amazing to read about Jenny Boyd throughout the years and see how far she went from her early days in Kenya to Carnaby Street and San Francisco, India with The Beatles, Los Angeles with her husbands and two daughters before finally settling in England with her third husband, David - and the many stops along the way. This is a tale of love and loss, of gain and adventure, and of the music which has inspired generations... but most of all, it is the story of one extraordinary woman; Helen Mary 'Jenny' Boyd.

I waited forever for this book’s price to go down & finally just went ahead & bought it. I was that anxious to read it as I love the period of the mid - to late 60s, I guess I was expecting to like it as much as I liked Patti Boyd’s book. Of course that’s not fair to compare the two or their autobiographies. I was really disappointed at the quality of the author’s writing. If she used the term, “Swinging Sixties,” once, she used it a dozen times. How very unoriginal. There was just not much there. I kind of thought it was more like reading a magazine article. Beautiful cover though.