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The Backward Shadow

Lynne Reid Banks author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:4th Nov '10

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The Backward Shadow cover

The sequel to Lynne Reid Banks' groundbreaking novel of the 1960s, The L-Shaped Room

Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. The two women start up a shop in the village, and it is their changing fortunes and feelings for the men on whom so much of their lives are staked which form the core of this funny and vivdly-told novel.

Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. Her idyllic time there is soon complicated by the arrival of Toby, the love of her life, and her friend Dorothy. The two women start up a shop in the village, and it is their changing fortunes and feelings for the men on whom so much of their lives are staked which form the core of this funny and vivdly-told novel.

The Backward Shadow is a worthy sequel to The L-Shaped Room

Characters so lively and believable they give the impression of wanting to jump right out of the page and run * Guardian *
Lynne Reid Banks is one of the most readable, delightfull and accomplished novelists writing today -- Edna O'Brien

ISBN: 9780099529071

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 182g

256 pages