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Lynne Reid Banks

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Lynne Reid Banks is the author of more than 40 books , including The L-Shaped Room

March 2017

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    Lynne Reid Banks: raising a family on a kibbutz was everything my mother detested

    In the 1960s, when the author moved to Israel with her Jewish partner, little did she know her mother’s disapproval would last for decades

January 2017

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    double quotation markIt’s great being old. I can be eccentric, self-indulgent – even offensive

    Lynne Reid Banks
    Aged 87, I’m discovering the unexpected advantages of old age. But I’m part of the luckiest generation that’s ever lived