Ariane Bankes
Ariane Bankes had a long career in publishing, including at John Murray and V&A Publishing, before becoming a writer, critic and curator. She is President of Koestler Arts, and runs two UK-based biography prizes. She divides her time between London and Norfolk.
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Ariane Bankes
“An enchanting double-helix biography . . . Contains enough mad capers, heaving proposals and dramatic death throes to be a veritable Harlequin romance for the literary set . . . It’s lacy and necessary filigree between the sober straight lines of history.” —Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review
For fans of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: “devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual currents and crises of mid-twentieth century Europe” (Rupert Christiansen).