The L-Shaped Room Academy Award for Best Actress. A 27-year-old French woman, Jane Fosset (Caron), arrives alone at a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London, moving into an L-shaped room. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay black guitar player. Jane is pregnant and has no desire to marry the father. On her first visit to a doctor, she wants to find out if she really is pregnant and consider her options. The doctor's facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion
Debut novel earliest attested usage of "first novel" is from 1876. However, the term is much older, with instances going back to at least 1800. The "Oxford English Dictionary" doesn't have an entry for "debut novel." The earliest usage of "debut novel" in the Google Books database is 1930 (). The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows it becoming more widely used after about 1980, gaining in popularity since. Debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure