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
Lynn Strait band Snot, a song entitled "Absent," the original version of which was included on the "Strangeland" soundtrack. On August 7, 1999, fans were encouraged to buy copies of Snot's debut CD "Get Some" in an attempt to cause a jump in the charts on what would have been Lynn's 31st birthday. The band My Ruin fronted by Tairrie B paid tribute to him with a song called "Rockstar". The Band NOFX mentions both Lynn and Dobbs in their song 'Doornails' in which they pay tribute to deceased punk band members. British band Reuben paid tribute to him and Kurt Cobain