The L-Shaped Room (novel) is pregnant. The L-Shaped room is the dingy room at the top of the boarding house that Jane retreats to, to wallow in her miseries. Jane narrates the story as we follow her through her pregnancy and her encounters with the other residents of the boarding house, all misfits and outsiders. Jane got pregnant through a bungled sexual encounter losing her virginity to her ex-boyfriend. Her decision to live by herself and have the baby causes her to be seen as little better than the prostitutes who live in the basement of the boarding house. The L-Shaped Room (novel) The
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