The Backward Shadow

In "The L-Shaped Room," Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady. Now, in the sequel, when Dottie arrives in the village where Jane has finally settled down with her baby, the two of them come up with a scheme to improve their lives.