The L-Shaped Room

Jane’s struggle to cope is a journey of self-discovery and independence…a wistful and haunting period piece * The Times *
This was the first grown-up book I read apart from the dirty bits in The Carpet Baggers and every 14-year-old should be made to read it. It tackles the lot; loneliness, race, sex and growing up. I never read books twice but I feel like tracking this one down again. – Jenny Eclair * Daily Express *
Unflinching in its boarding-house detail, and strikingly modern in its fury at the “social conditioning” that made its heroine an outcast; it shocked and sold. * The Independent *
Written in pre-Pill days when motherhood really was a fate worse than death, the shame and tension in Reid Bank’s ground-breaking novel may seem incomprehensible to today’s sexually active youngsters – Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *

Lynne Reid Banks has written a number of books for children and young adults.

Her children’s books include:

• The Adventures of King Midas
• The Farthest-Away Mountain
• Maura’s Angel
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• Return of the Indian
• The Fairy Rebel
• The Magic Hare

Her books for teenagers include:

• One More River
• Sarah and After
• My Darling Villain
• The Writing on the Wall
• Melusine: A Mystery
• Broken Bridge

In addition, she has written two historical books about Israel:

• Letters to My Israeli Sons
• Torn Country

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