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
Iain Reid my Road Trip with Grandma" in 2013. His debut novel, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", was published in 2016. It is being adapted info a film for Netflix by Charlie Kaufman. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. Iain Reid Iain Reid (b. ca. 1980) is a Canadian writer, who won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015. Reid established his writing career by publishing articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers following his college graduation. He drew the attention of the "National Post", garnering a weekly column assignment. In 2015 he began appearing in US magazine "The New Yorker".