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Pregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves - a bug-ridden boarding-house attic in Fulham. She thinks she wants to hide from the world, but finds out that even at the bottom of the heap, friends and love can still be found, and self-respect is still ...
1 de jan. de 2004 · The L-Shaped Room. Paperback – Import, January 1, 2004. In this bestselling classic novel which became a famous film, Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retreats to a dingy attic bedsit in Fulham where she finds unexpected companionship, happiness and love. Set in the late 1950s, the 27 year-old unmarried Jane Graham arrives alone at a run-down ...
- Lynne Reid Banks
Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960. In 1962 Banks emigrated to Israel, where she taught for eight years on an Israeli kibbutz Yasur. In 1965 she married Chaim Stephenson, with whom she had three sons. Although the family returned to England in 1971 and Banks now lives in Dorset, the influence of her time in Israel can be ...
The L-Shaped Room was the second film directed and scripted by actor-screenwriter-director Bryan Forbes, following the wonderful Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Forbes would go on to direct other quirky independent films such as Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and The Whisperers (1966), as well as the glitzy Hollywood cult film, The Stepford Wives (1975).
The L-shaped Room. Lynne Reid Banks. Penguin, 1962 - Fiction - 269 pages. Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and ...
The L-Shaped Room. In an Academy Award nominated performance, Leslie Caron portrays Jane, a young pregnant French girl who moves to a seedy boarding house in London for a new start. Beautiful and withdrawn, Jane slowly gets to know the other residents of the house who, like her, are social outsiders in their own way.
The L-Shaped Room. Leslie Caron, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Tom Bell. A bittersweet portrayal of young womanhood in seamy 1960s London, The L-Shaped Room was way ahead of its time and is ripe for rediscovery . Director, producer and screenwriter Bryan Forbes’s ( The Stepford Wives, Whistle Down the Wind ) adapted Lynne Reid-Banks’s ...
