Book description
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
Lynne Reid Banks was born in London in 1929 and was evacuated to the
Canadian prairies during the war. On her return to England she studied
at RADA and was an actress in the early 1950s; later she became one of
the first two women reporters on British television. Her first book,
The L-Shaped Room
, was published in 1960 and was an instant and lasting best-seller.
Lynne Reid Banks is also a best-selling author of books for children and
young adults. Her classic children's novel,
The Indian in the Cupboard
, has sold over ten million copies worldwide. She lives in London.
