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 Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay black guitar player.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
Watching the Dark (novel) Watching the Dark (novel) Watching the Dark is the 20th novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series, published in August 2012. DCI Alan Banks is back, and this time he is investigating the murder of one of his own. Respected Officer DI Bill Quinn has been shot through the heart by a bolt from a crossbow while convalescing at the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, and the initial investigation uncovers compromising photos with a very young woman in his room. Assigned to assist DCI Banks is Professional Standards Inspector Joanna Passero, and as the