Nobody does riches to riches better than Carly

The dust jacket of Boys In The Trees refers to Carly Simon as a “feminist icon”, which is, it must be said, pushing it a little bit. Frequently and inaccurately caricatured as a wealthy Jewish princess whose singing career fell into her lap thanks to top-class connections, at 71, she remains a difficult figure to pin down in the context of 1970s music.

This is her attempt to set the record straight, but ...