The L-Shaped Room (novel)

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The L-Shaped Room

Cover of the first edition
Author	Lynne Reid Banks
Cover artist	Una Bishop
Language	English
Genre	Bildungsroman
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Publication date	1960
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	269 pp (Paperback)

Reid Banks discusses the novel's heroine

from the BBC programme Bookclub, 6 June 2010.^[1]

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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, with significant differences from the novel, by Bryan Forbes.