The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron's performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the
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