She fled her family's suburban home, began a modeling career and was asked to appear as an extra in the first Beatles film, "A Hard Day's Night." It was on the set that she met Harrison, "the best-looking man I'd ever seen." On their first date, they were accompanied by The Beatles' manager and father-figure, Brian Epstein. I feel very privileged to have been there." It just all seemed to happen at the same time. In the arts, everything emerged at the same time: poetry, writers, musicians, fashion designers, painters. "Then when the '60s emerged, there was all of this freedom.
"My parents behaved in the way they'd been treated as children themselves, which was very austere - children were seen and not really spoken to," said Boyd, who still cuts a glamorous figure, from her shiny black boots to her blond hair and cornflower-blue eyes. The book begins a long way from the glamorous rock world, with an account of Boyd's emotionally detached middle-class childhood - a world of secrets and silences in which "nothing was ever explained everything was a mystery."
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