Thrown out of her home by her father, she has to look for a place of her own to live in. this is when she stumbles across the L-Shaped room, at the top of a dark and dingy house with its vast array of occupants ranging from a Jewish writer to the prostitutes who live in the basement.

I was unable to put this book down and was drawn into an entirely different era from which I know now. This book allowed me to follow Jane and her new found friends around as if they were there in real life, experiencing the raw emotion of everyday life living in 1960’s London, with Jane striving to survive on her wages after she is sacked: sacked for being pregnant and unmarried.

This book opens your eyes and comparisons are able to be made between today’s acceptance of unmarried single mother’s and the chastising of the unmarried single mother’s of the 1960’s.

There are two other books which follow Jane and her child as they are growing up and I cannot wait to read them. The only regret I have is not finding them sooner. Lynne Ried Banks is an excellent author and once again excels herself in her unique style loved and adored by millions the world over.