ARGONAUT BOOKS

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine, which charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their famous friends and lovers. Reviews 'The record of their lives is frankly extraordinary: a quality shared by Bankes's book... The book's a dazzler' TLS '[A] rather delicious and sympathetic book... the pleasure of The Quality of Love lies in the details, in the sometimes startling small print of the sisters' relationships... all her characters are sketched s...Read More