The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron's performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the
Robert Banks Stewart for the adaptation of "My Uncle Silas" (2001–03) starring Albert Finney. At the age of 81, Banks Stewart published his first novel—a thriller entitled "The Hurricane's Tail", featuring a British detective called Detective Sergeant Harper Buchanan who uncovers a political plot against the prime minister of a Caribbean island. It was originally envisaged as a two-part TV series, but Banks Stewart said he decided to turn it into a novel after "getting nowhere" with TV executives, which he attributed to ageism. His memoir of working in the television industry, "To Put You in the Picture", was published in 2015. On