Lynne Reid Banks Lynne Reid Banks Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults. She has written forty-five books, including the best-selling children's novel "The Indian in the Cupboard", which has sold over 10 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, "The L-Shaped Room", published in 1960, was an instant and lasting best seller. It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, "The Backward Shadow" and "Two is Lonely". Banks also wrote a biography of the Brontë family, entitled "Dark Quartet",
Lynn Rainbow Lynn Rainbow Lynn Carol Rainbow-Reid (born 19 September 1942) is an Australian-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School, The Sorbonne and Dante Alighieri in Italy. Lynn was the daughter of Judge Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur. She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on Australian television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police". She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series "The Group". From March 1972 played the original regular character of Sonia in the phenomenally