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3.97. 3,332 ratings246 reviews. In this bestselling classic novel which became a famous film, Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retreats to a dingy attic bedsit in Fulham where she finds unexpected companionship, happiness and love.
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THE L-SHAPED ROOM. by Lynne Reid Banks ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 27, 1961. A reminder of Nathaniel Benchley's One To Grow On soap opera bouffe, in which an unwed mother-to-be found new friends to help her through the ordeal ahead in a rooming house, this - without the bouffe- tells of Jane Graham, who takes an L-shaped room in an impossibly dingy ...
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May 30, 2017 · The novel incisively portrays the social prejudices the heroine Jane faces and the internalized shame she feels as a consequence, but also how her strength of will helps her endure and establish a new life for herself.
This month, Emily's Walking Book Club is discussing The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks. In this book review, I share how it's made me wonder about important rooms in our lives -...
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First published in 1960, Lynne Reid Banks’ The L-Shaped Room is set in a London on the cusp of radical social change. Six years after the end of rationing and three years before The Beatles first number one, the book opens on ‘a greyish sort of day’ in ‘one of those gone-to-seed houses in Fulham’, painted in shades of coffee stain ...
Feb 11, 2010 · Briefly, The L-Shaped Room tells the story of Jane Graham who, at the age of 27, finds herself unmarried, pregnant and the resident of a squalid boarding house. She moves there, into her l-shaped room, when her father throws her out of the family home after learning of her pregnancy.
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Summary. 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages'.
