The L-Shaped Room was to be Jane’s punishment – and redemption.Jane Graham is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out of her comfortable suburban home by an angry father. She lights dejectedly on a bug-ridden room at the top of a squalid house in Fulham. She cares nothing for it, or herself, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours, by their unaffected kindness, that draw her back into life – Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a black jazz-player, and even her tyrannical landlady. And in the L-Shaped room which she has slowly made her home Jane comes to find a new and positive faith in life.
The main story is entirely about Jane, a heterosexual unmarried pregnant woman, and her relationship with a male writer named Toby.
The main story is entirely about Jane, a heterosexual unmarried pregnant woman, and her relationship with a male writer named Toby.
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| Title: The L-Shaped Room |
| Author: Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN: 9780140000000 |
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| Genre: Family; Historical Fiction; Movie/Media Tie-In; Relationships |
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| Publication Date: 34213 |
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| Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 272 |
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| Notes: While the book (and 1962 film) has a lesbian character named Mavis – an elderly, lonely former actress who lives in the boarding house with her cat and a photograph of her deceased female partner – this is a secondary/supporting character in an ensemble cast. The main story is entirely about Jane, a heterosexual unmarried pregnant woman, and her relationship with a male writer named Toby. |
| Book_ID: 102470 |