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Lynne Reid Banks, author, dies aged 94

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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:26:02 +0000
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Lynne Reid Banks, who has died aged 94, was a British author of books for children and adults.She has written forty-eight books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 15 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published in 1960, was an instant and lasting best seller. It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely. Banks also wrote a biography of the Brontë family, entitled Dark Quartet, and a sequel about Charlotte Brontë, Path to the Silent Country.

Many hands make light work. -- John Heywood

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