The Backward Shadow by Lynne Reid Banks - ISBN: 9780099529071
Paperback
Love, motherhood, and changing fortunes collide in this poignant sequel.

The Backward Shadow

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    4 November 2010

Summary

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. 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 vividly-told novel.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099529071
ISBN-10:0099529076
Author:Lynne Reid Banks
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:4 November 2010
Weight:182g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 15mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Characters so lively and believable they give the impression of wanting to jump right out of the page and run

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

About The Author

Lynne Reid Banks

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.

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