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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 RoomTags
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Het boek is begin jaren zeventig uitgekomen en een vervolg op The L-shaped Room. Indertijd heb ik de drie delen met plezier gelezen (ik was toen rond de 18) en nu dus deel twee herlezen. Het viel me niet tegen, al is het behoorlijk gedateerd. De ophef van toen over een ongehuwde moeder is nu natuurlijk niet meer voorspelbaar. Ook de beschrijving van een zwarte man is schokkend, racistisch, zou nu niet meer kunnen. Het verhaal is dun maar goed geschreven. Tegenwoordig zou je dit een YA-boek noemen.
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Lynne Reid Banks was born in London, England on July I929. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she acted and wrote for the repertory stage.Eventually, she turned to journalism, becoming one of Britain's first female television news reporters. Banks was fired from her job as a reporter, and while working a different job, she wrote show more her first novel, which went on to become a best seller. show less
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- Canonical title
- The Backward Shadow
- Original publication date
- 1970
- People/Characters
- Jane Graham
- First words
- I don't know exactly when the restlessness began.
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- He began to pick up lumps of glass, left-overs, throw-outs, around the factory, and kind of look at them. He kept one on his mantelpiece for weeks, and he kept staring at it, and handling it ... So then he started making lump... (show all)s in his spare time. Just letting blobs of glass fall as it would. Then he began blowing bubbles into it. Then shaping it.... It really was rather a beautiful lump - like a piece of crystallized ocean. One immediately wanted to hold it.
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