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 seems tired too. The illegitimate son conceived and born to Jane in that first volume is now eight and—apparently troubled by fatherlessness—given to nightly attacks of hysteria. His need for a father is made a somewhat unconsidered motive for his mother's capable scrutiny of the scene, and her relations with men in the past and present are really her subject. This is the 1970s version of the staunch little heroine's search for a mate, in which there can be no thrills without obstacles and love has still to be tested. Illegitimate children, one-night stands (provided they occasion anxiety) and a slightly franker look at the zones where sexual feelings dwell are allowed now, in moderation. Love is still love...