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 Rainbow Lynn Rainbow Lynn Carol Rainbow-Reid (born 19 September 1942) is an Australian-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School, The Sorbonne and Dante Alighieri in Italy. Lynn was the daughter of Judge Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur. She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on Australian television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police". She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series "The Group". From March 1972 played the original regular character of Sonia in the phenomenally