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      The L-Shaped Room

      by Lynne Reid Banks
      Published
      Dec 1960
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      320
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      L-Shaped Room Book 1

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      'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages' The Guardian 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 worth fighting for.

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      Dec 1976 Prentice Hall Press ISBN13 9780582233584 ISBN10 0582233585
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      Jan 2004 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099469636 ISBN10 0099469634
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      First Edition Jan 1975 Ebury Publishing (UK) ISBN13 9780701105228 ISBN10 0701105224
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      Jul 1969 Chatto Educ. ISBN13 9780701003715 ISBN10 0701003715
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      Sep 1991 Chivers ISBN13 9780862206208 ISBN10 0862206200
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      Dec 2021 Vintage ISBN13 9781446426272 ISBN10 1446426270
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      Jul 1993 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9780745141527 ISBN10 0745141528
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