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 Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay black guitar player.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
Lynn Crosbie contributor to "Toronto Life Fashion". Her Trampoline Hall Lecture was entitled "Don't Have Casual Sex". Her book "Life Is About Losing Everything", a roman à clef/fictional memoir, was released in April 2012 by House of Anansi. The book won the 2013 ReLit Award in the fiction category. Her novel "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" was published in 2015 from House of Anansi. Lynn Crosbie Lynn Crosbie (born 7 August 1963) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches at the University of Toronto. Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She received her PhD