'Wild Child' is the most vivid, intimate and revelatory portrait of Jim Morrison every written. Based on Linda Ashcroft's diaries from the four year period when she knew Morrison - as friend, lover, confidante and muse - from 1967 to his death in 1971, this book reveals his dreams and his demons and the meaning behind the imagery of his lyrics and poems. It is also the first book to illuminate the mystery of Morrison's death through the words of the woman who was with him when he died - Pamela Courson, who called Linda Ashcroft two hours later with the news.
Before flying to Paris, to his death, Morrison told the author "It may have been in bits and pieces, but I gave you the best of me." 'Wild Child' likewise gives the best of Jim Morrison. It is a compelling memoir of his life and times at the height of his career - and also of one woman's coming of age through her friendship with him, in the freewheeling years of the late 1960s.
