The longest human connection that most of us will experience won’t be with a spouse or a childhood pal – it will be the one we share with our siblings. With any luck, we will know our brothers and sisters for almost an entire lifetime; for the most part, we meet them before we make friends outside the family, and usually long before we choose a romantic partner.
In the UK, approximately 80 per cent of us have siblings, and if you are lucky, this bond can be one of life’s greatest joys. I love that I share an almost-identical library of memories with my two younger sisters – and that they can probably recall every single fashion mistake I made between the years 2005 and 2012. And I love that, although we have very different temperaments, sometimes one of them will say exactly what I’m thinking.
