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From the author of the memorable "The L-Shaped Room" comes this powerful, disturbing, bittersweet sequel-a complete novel in itself, which continues the story of Jane, now living in an English country cottage with her illegitimate child, determined to forge a viable, independent future. She still loves Toby, her past lover but not the father of her child, but she has an obsessive conviction that she must not burden his writing career by saddling him with her situation.
Tough and resilient though Jane is in many respects, the intensity with which she loves her child is not enough to conceal from her the recognition of her essential loneliness in her isolated country life. She resolves to meet the challenge in her own way and, as readers of "The L-Shaped Room" will remember fondly, Jane's way is one of honesty, humor, and unsentimental insight.
Rarely in fiction does the sequel to a celebrated novel measure up to its predecessor in impact and originality, but "The Backward Shadow" is in every way as glowing an achievement as Lynne Reid Banks's first book, which elicited the critical acclaim that you will find on the back of this jacket. |
