The L-shaped Room

Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of
unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While
the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a
transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages'
The Guardian

Pregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old
Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves
- a bug-ridden boarding-house attic in Fulham. She thinks she wants to
hide from the world, but finds out that even at the bottom of the
heap, friends and love can still be found, and self-respect is still
worth fighting for.