Quality of Love

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780715654989
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 02 May 2024
  • Publisher: Duckworth Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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'Oh, what lives they both led!' Spectator

'Enriched by the correspondence between the twins – for, ultimately, the great love story is theirs alone' Telegraph

A TLS Book of the Year

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, and George Orwell. 

Out of this rich archive, The Quality of Love weaves the story of these captivating and unusually beautiful identical twins who overcame a meagre education to take 1930s London society by storm and move among Europe’s foremost intellectuals during the twentieth century’s most dramatic decades. Above all, it is a sparkling portrait of the deep connection between two spirited sisters.

Ariane Bankes had a long career in publishing, including at John Murray and V&A Publishing, before becoming a writer, critic and curator. Her writing has appeared in the Spectator, TLS, Financial Times, Country Life and Slightly Foxed. She is Honorary President of Koestler Arts, and runs the Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize and the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize.