Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon review – singer’s witty self-analysis

From showbiz anecdotes to illness and exploitation, this autobiography gives us Bohemia with the petals falling offA study of a traumatic childhood, a portrait of a troubled marriage, a string of showbiz anecdotes: one autobiography can’t contain Simon’s volatile life. Students of A-list gossip will be titillated as the singer candidly recalls encounters with Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty (partial inspiration for her hit “You’re So Vain”) and Mick Jagger, not to men