The L - Shaped Room

by Lynne Reid Banks

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140019138
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.6" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

this book is good!

this book is excellent and everybody should read it! i am 13 and i enjoyed it

A moving story of compassion, shame, love and hate.

This story has everything behind it - love,hate, shame, compassion, sympathy, loneliness, understanding. It shares the troubles of a rejected young hopeful being who struggles through a pregnancy without the people she thought had loved her, her father, her friends, her family. Through the want of no help, she finds in a place of shabbiness called home, the L-Shaped Room, true friends, true love and the love for a child she never thought to be a reality.

Thoughtful, poignant and provocative reading.

Poignant story of a young women who had to make some tough choices. The author takes her readers on a journey of shame, forgiveness and an unbreakable spirit. Truly timeless.

A really good book!

This has become one of my favorite books and should be on every teen reading list.