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The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

Ariane Bankes: The Quality of Love

Ariane Bankes tells the story of her mother, whose love affairs with Orwell, Camus, Ayer and others put her at the heart of the 20th century.

The identical twins who captivated literary London

The dazzlingly beautiful identical twins Mamaine and Celia Paget were born in 1916 and brought up in rural Suffolk – not the greatest springboard, you would think, for lives at the intellectual heart of the mid-20th century. Yet the list of their friends reads like a roll call of literary notables: Dick Wyndham, Peter Quennell,

Twins who bewitched two literary giants: They were debutantes who took society by storm... but instead of marrying chinless toffs, they ignited the ardour of George Orwell and Albert Camus - as daughter learned when she found a cache of letters

In 1935 the exquisitely pretty Paget sisters - identical twins who were also the Debutantes of the Year - took English society by storm.

The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes, review: the wild Pagets