“Mick Jagger’s Fault is a novel that imposes itself with youthful grace.”

—Patrick Besson, Marianne

Mick Jagger’s Fault is a moving autobiographical tale of a young man born during the 1970s to hippie parents.

Simon is a self-proclaimed hypersensitive guy who recounts here his past and present struggles coping with life after a childhood rocked by none other than Mick Jagger. At thirty years old, he is living on minimum wage and spends much of his time helping his mother out. Her mind is so ravaged by her drug-taking days that she hears Mick Jagger’s voice in her head. Simon must deal not only with his mother’s craziness but also with his capricious and needy girlfriend, Angelica. He can’t leave her, not even when the lovely Lucile comes along and offers some normalcy, so bound is he to his topsy-turvy existence.

With humor and horror, Simon portrays his less than idyllic childhood, when his parents cared more about changing society than his diapers. There are also precious but few moments spent with his grandmother, who gave him a semblance of a normal upbringing. But as he was mostly passed along from one pair of hands to the next in an atmosphere of idealism and drugs, he grew up unsure of his own identity; this is reflected in his decisions later in life, the sum of which brings him to the point when he begins this life story.