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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,

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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.

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

The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes, review: the wild Pagets
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Nonfiction to look out for in 2024

From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year

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