Lynne Reid Banks Summary

Critical Essay by Keith Waterhouse The L-Shaped Room is a disappointing first novel about a pregnant girl who is thrown out of house and home and has to go live in a nasty little room in Fulham to aw... Read more

Critical Essay by Marion Glastonbury [The] prose of Lynne Reid Banks [in Defy the Wilderness] seems generous to a fault, stuttering sensuous adjectives in loose profusion like the unruly hairpins she... Read more

Critical Essay by Millicent Bell A middle-aged neurotic who is drinking herself blind in squalid solitude begins a journal (as a kind of therapy, of course). Wanna read it? No? I thought not. It�... Read more

Critical Essay by James Fenton [Miss Reid Banks's intention in The Backward Shadow] is not to work on any grand literary scale but merely to please by appealing to our least healthy romantic l... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement With [Two Is Lonely] Lynne Reid Banks ends the trilogy which began in an L-shaped room in Fulham. Her heroine is thirty-six and tired, and her creator ... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosalind Wade To write a full-length novel about the Brontës is surely a new idea? So many biographies and critical studies have been published about the famous family that i... Read more