The Backward Shadow
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Nov '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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