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 Crosbie contributor to "Toronto Life Fashion". Her Trampoline Hall Lecture was entitled "Don't Have Casual Sex". Her book "Life Is About Losing Everything", a roman à clef/fictional memoir, was released in April 2012 by House of Anansi. The book won the 2013 ReLit Award in the fiction category. Her novel "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" was published in 2015 from House of Anansi. Lynn Crosbie Lynn Crosbie (born 7 August 1963) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches at the University of Toronto. Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She received her PhD