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 Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay black guitar player.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
Carolyn Banks published by Fawcett and reprinted by Amber Quill Press include: "Death by Dressage", "Groomed for Death", "Death on the Diagonal", "Murder Well Bred" and "A Horse to Die For". In 2007, Amber Quill also reprinted a 1995 literary novel Banks wrote entitled "The Turtle's Voice". The novel was the winner of the 1995 Austin Book Award. Banks is listed in "Contemporary Authors," Vol. 105 and is a member of Author's Guild and the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2000, Banks founded a nonprofit organization called Upstart, Inc., a media arts organization that brings in experts to teach screenwriting, production and