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The L - Shaped Room

Paperback • 1993 • English • 1. edition

The L - Shaped Room

By Lynne Reid Banks

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About the book

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 ...Show more

Narrative theme: Social issues
Thriller: organised crime
Thriller: serial killers

Book details

ISBN

9780140019131

Publisher

PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE

Published year

1993

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The L - Shaped Room

Format

Paperback

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