Read Now The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century Author FREE [Book]

Read Now The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century Author FREE [Book]

A rich family archive reveals the incredible lives and loves of two sisters who captivated Europe&8217sintelligentsia When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.&nbspTheQuality of Love&nbspweaes the story of these charismatic and beautiful identical twins who overcame

a meagre education to take 1930s London society by storm and move among Europe&8217sforemost intellectuals during the twentieth century&8217smost dramatic decades. Above all, it is a sparkling portrait of the deep connection between two spirited sisters. PRAISE FOR THE QUALITY OF LOVE'A sophisticated, cultured cast of writers and thinkers are convincingly woven together through the fascination of the Paget twins, who are the magnetic centre of the story...&nbspTheQuality of Love&nbspconures a&nbsptresure trove of characters who were at the heart of their age'&nbspVirinia Nicholson, author of Among the Bohemians'Taking us from the high bohemia of 1930s London to the European intellectual scene of the 1940s and 1950s, Ariane Bankes weaves a story as spirited and alluring as the Paget sisters at its centre'&nbspAntnia Fraser