by Lynne Reid Banks · Pearson English Language Teaching · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582538351
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«The L-Shaped Room» is the novel by Lynne Reid Banks, published by Pearson English Language Teaching in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Jane Graham, 27 and pregnant, becomes homeless when her father throws her out of the house. She takes refuge in an attic room in the London district of Fulham, convinced she deserves no better. There she discovers that, even at her lowest point, she can find friendship, love and reasons to fight for her dignity.
Adapted and simplified edition by Olivia Johnston, from the Longman Structural Readers series, level 6 (1800 words); the work belongs to the Jane Graham series (book 1).
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language following a graded readers programme.
Lynne Reid Banks was a British author of books for children and adults, including The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 15 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. Banks also wrote a biography of the Brontë family, entitled Dark Quartet, and a sequel about Charlotte Brontë, Path to the Silent Country.
