Lynne Reid Banks was born in London in 1929 and was evacuated to the Canadian prairies during the wa. For Pat, who helped so much, and my menfolk, who didn’t. Chapter 1. I DON’T know exactly when the restlessness began.
Lynne Reid Banks was born in London in 1929 and was evacuated to the Canadian prairies during the war. On her return to England she studied at RADA and was an actress in the early 1950s; later she became one of the first two women reporters on British television. Her first book, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960 and was an instant and lasting best-seller. Lynne Reid Banks is also a best-selling author of books for children and young adults.
Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults. She has written forty-five books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published in 1960, was an instant and lasting best seller. It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely.
The kettle was steaming and various bits and pieces had been brought out of the fridge which indicated that when the ground was cleared he had proposed to begin making breakfast. I said in dopey astonishment. You don’t have to do that. Well, I want my breakfast. I always eat well in the mornings. I hope you don’t mind,’ he said as an afterthought. I’ve already had a cup of te. Of course I don’t mind. You make me feel a bad hostess, that’s all. But after all, it is barely seven o’clock.
The Backward Shadow book. This book, second in the Jane Graham trilogy, has simply confirmed what I already knew; that Lynne Reid Banks is a master of articulating the human condition. I don't know why Lynne Reid Banks is well known only for the L-shaped room, when this second volume of the trilogy is a finer book.
The tone of this book is more depressing than The L Shaped Room, and some of the important themes of the first book do not seem to be dealt with adequately
The tone of this book is more depressing than The L Shaped Room, and some of the important themes of the first book do not seem to be dealt with adequately. For example, the main point of importance was the fact that Jane is unmarried, and that David is therefore illegitimate. In the sixties this would have been quite a serious problem in the eyes of society, in The Backward Shadow this point seems almost glossed over.
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All episodes of Lynne Reid Banks - The Backward Shadow. 7/10 The sequel to The L-Shaped Room. Episode 6. 6/10 Jane can't understand why Dottie has been so prickly over Christmas. Episode 5. 5/10 Christmas has gone terribly wrong and Jane is furious that Toby isn't being more helpful. Episode 4. 4/10 Toby's flirtation with Whistler worries Jane so she invites him to come for Christmas.
Book in the Jane Graham Series). Jane says she doesn't want to be a burden to anyone - least of all to her lover, Toby. She has exchanged the l-shaped room of the earlier novel for a remote country cottage where she nurses her baby.
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