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Jane GrahamSeries

This series delves into the lives of women navigating difficult circumstances and societal judgment as they forge paths toward independence. Through their internal struggles and external challenges, it explores themes of unexpected motherhood, resilience, and the search for self-identity. These narratives highlight how human connection and inner strength can lead to profound personal growth and a renewed sense of hope.

Two Is Lonely
The Backward Shadow
The L-shaped room

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  1. 1

    The L-shaped room

    4.0(2922)Add rating

    The L-Shaped Room was to be Jane's punishment - and redemption. Jane Graham is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out of her comfortable suburban home by an angry father. She lights dejectedly on a bug-ridden room at the top of a squalid house in Fulham. She cares nothing for it, or herself, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours, by their unaffected kindness, that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a black jazz-player, and even her tyrannical landlady. And in the L-Shaped room which she has slowly made her home Jane comes to find a new and positive faith in life.

    The L-shaped room
  2. 2

    The Backward Shadow

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
    3.7(282)Add rating

    Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. 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
  3. 3

    Two Is Lonely

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
    3.5(237)Add rating

    Jane's son David is eight years old and Jane is filled with doubts as he grows up without a father. Then there is Andy, close at hand, a complex personality with his own problem son. In the background is Terry, David's father, an amorphous shadow hanging over them.

    Two Is Lonely