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The L-Shaped Room: Lynne Reid BanksA young woman finds herself pregnant 'on the wrong side of the blanket' in 1961. The attitude to single mothers was very different then; her father kicks her out of their home and she moves into a dingy rooming house. Against her will she becomes involved with the characters who live there, some of them who are outcasts in their own way Toby, the budding Jewish writer; John, the huge, gentle Negro musician and Mavis, the old dear living in a room

He gets involved in troubles such as never occurred in his bachelor days but the delicate silk strands that bind him to the unpredictable little woman who has taken him for her second husband are firm

With these men travels the mysterious Miranda on whom all must wager their lives

it could not be satisfied

will turn to the law of the jungle if it will save his family

friend of the enigmatic Jhary-a-Conel and fabled destroyer of the Dark Empire

There's also the tale of his escape from the German naval fleet in World War I

In the first class cabins are Bill Derby

each possessed of extraordinary powers

No matter how long the day

She is captured by the alien lyrinx Ryll

with royalists against rebels

charge into battle or begin the long

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