The L-Shaped Room (novel) The L-Shaped Room (novel) The L-Shaped Room is a 1960 British novel by Lynne Reid Banks which tells the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It was adapted into a film by Bryan Forbes with significant differences from the novel. "The L-Shaped Room" is set in the late 1950s and follows a young woman, Jane Graham, who arrives alone at a run-down boarding house in London after being turned out of her comfortable middle class home by her shocked father after telling him she
Carolyn Banks published by Fawcett and reprinted by Amber Quill Press include: "Death by Dressage", "Groomed for Death", "Death on the Diagonal", "Murder Well Bred" and "A Horse to Die For". In 2007, Amber Quill also reprinted a 1995 literary novel Banks wrote entitled "The Turtle's Voice". The novel was the winner of the 1995 Austin Book Award. Banks is listed in "Contemporary Authors," Vol. 105 and is a member of Author's Guild and the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2000, Banks founded a nonprofit organization called Upstart, Inc., a media arts organization that brings in experts to teach screenwriting, production and