#Reid Kitson

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Lynne Reid Banks, who has died aged 94, hit a jackpot with her first book, The L-Shaped Room (1960), the story of an unmarried middle-class girl, Jane Graham, who takes a dingy room in London to hide her unwanted pregnancy. The novel was a cracking read that caught the cusp of a momentous change in social attitudes. Its profile rose even higher when it became a film in 1962, with Leslie Caron playing its heroine. It sold in its millions and never went out of print.

This success was both a blessing and curse for Reid Banks. In the decades that followed, she published nine further novels (two of them sequels to The L-Shaped Room), two award-winning volumes of biographical fiction on the lives of the Brontës, two books about Israel and numerous books for younger readers. But nothing she wrote ever matched the acclaim for The L-Shaped Room.

Reid Banks was a dramatic and dynamic woman who lived her life with gusto. If the slights of the literary world sometimes hurt her, they never quenched the energy and passion she brought to her work. Stories flowed effortlessly from her pen, characterised by lively dialogue, well-crafted plots and compulsive readability.

The Indian in the Cupboard (1980), a children’s book she wrote for and dedicated to her youngest son, Omri, came closest to her first success, in sales, translation into 20 languages and transformation into a Hollywood film in 1995. That pleased her. But in the same year, she expressed outrage that her longstanding publishers had turned down her latest adult novel. She nevertheless found another publisher and received considerable praise for Fair Exchange (1998), a book she dedicated to her friend Norma Kitson, whose remarkable struggle against apartheid in South Africa infuses its story.

Lynne was born in Barnes, London, the only child of a Scottish doctor, James Reid Banks, and an Irish actor, Muriel (nee Marsh, who went by the stage name Muriel Alexander), and began her education at a Catholic boarding school. At the start of the second world war, aged 10, she travelled with her mother and a cousin to Canada, which she thoroughly enjoyed. On her return to London, she went to Rada, and thence began acting in provincial rep, like the heroine of The L-Shaped Room.

It was during this period that she met and enraged the young John Osborne, whose first wife, the actor Pamela Lane, was her close friend. Osborne’s letters revealed not only his dislike of her, but the probability that she inspired one of the main characters in his own first success, Look Back in Anger.

A combative streak in Reid Banks got her into spats all her life. But she was no less forthright in her judgments of herself than of others. She did not hesitate to call herself a failed actress, failed playwright (of several plays) and failed television reporter, before her true career took off.

In the doldrums, she began writing freelance journalism, and when she went to interview the head of the embryonic ITN for the Radio Times, she also talked him into employing her. She thereby became one of the first two female reporters on television in 1955. This did not satisfy her for long, however, as (she claimed) they only gave her “the rubbish” to do. When she complained, they put her into a cubbyhole and set her to work writing scripts.

Bored stiff, she began using ITN’s stationery supplies and time to start work on her first novel. She later recalled how the newsreader Reginald Bosanquet would read a page off her typewriter in mocking amusement. But the laugh was on Reggie when the Evening Standard later ran the headline: “ITN girl sells film script for £25,000.” The real sum for The L-Shaped Room was £20,000, but that was still princely in those days.

She was not happy with the film, which changed the book’s story. It was a hit, but it took her 30 years to forgive the director, Bryan Forbes. It also infuriated her that people assumed she had written of single motherhood from personal experience, rather than imagination. Although on the crest of a wave of fame, money and success, Reid Banks left the country and did not return for a decade.

She had met the man whom in 1965 she was to marry, the Israeli sculptor Chaim Stephenson, while he was visiting Britain. She was not Jewish, but she went out to Israel and loved it, becoming an Israeli citizen. The couple lived on a kibbutz near the Sea of Galilee, and their three sons were born there.

It surprised but delighted her, soon after her arrival in Israel, to be asked to leave her hot, tiring work in the vineyards to teach English to a class of children. She threw herself into this new occupation with zeal, relishing the chance to use her acting skills, and achieved outstanding results.

But as the years went by, she missed Britain, and in the early 1970s she came back, the family settling uncomfortably at first in the London suburbs, but later living happily in a farmhouse in Beaminster, Dorset, and later still settling in Shepperton in Surrey. Her output of books for children continued (she produced many sequels and series), and she travelled, gardened and wrote for newspapers.

Chaim died in 2016. Reid Banks is survived by her sons, Adiel, Gillon and Omri, and her grandchildren, Daniel, David and Paloma.

🔔 Lynne Reid Banks, writer, born 31 July 1929; died 4 April 2024

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Stunning – nearly finished (only the last 2 chapters left)

Susan was saved from the gallows by a Reid and went with Connor and Jackson to South America. Now, Edmund Reid is invited to visit them. But he doesn’t want to go alone and so he ask Hermione Morton to accompany him.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14685774/chapters/34269308

The Revenge of a Dead – will be continued

Susan was saved from the gallows by her father Theodore Swift who wants to build up an empire of darkness. He forces her to help him. For this in return he had promised her to leave Jackson and Connor alone. Both live – without knowing anything – in the close neighbourhood to the presumed dead Susan.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12941367

Spoon-clothes-peg candle holders – finished

Susan, Connor and Jackson spent their first Christmas together as a family.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13167444/chapters/30115821

To the maple leaves - finished

Susan had refused Reid's proposal to betray her father and chose Theodore Swift instead. At least it looks like it. But suddenly she and her newborn child have disappeared without a trace. Jackson goes looking for her.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8908069/chapters/20406502

Family Triangle

Susan and Jackson broke up. Meanwhile, Jackson has married Mimi and they have a child. But Mimi is ill and close to die. Because she didn't want Jackson and her daughter to be alone after her death, she travels to Susan to convince her to take care for them.

At this point of the story it’s up to the reader what happens next. The reader can choose if Mimi survives or Mimi does not survive.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10553386/chapters/23310008

Ménage à trois - unfinished (because I have problems writing Reid talking Latin in ecstasy)

Susan, Jackson and Reid take refuge in the Alexandria Theatre near Mimi, where Jackson finds a camera... This results in interesting human combinations.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9646271/chapters/22386359

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Mostly spontaneous small snippits.

Have you kissed Reid? 

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/170567174801/corpyburd-more-reid-you-have-kissed-reid

Modern AU – Susan is waiting for Reid to return home. He comes, but not alone …

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/175234531896/a-little-hartmundjackmund-ficlet-an-unusual

Drunk Jackson tells Thatcher about his secret passion for teeth.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/167352937151/the-captain-stroked-tenderly-over-the-blank-shiny

Jackson becomes a real doctor.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/166461462926/sorry-again-some-sweet-sweet-sackson-fluff

Alternative Sackson end, not happy, but at least, they survived. 

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/165946833476/you-will-be-alone-and-stucked-in-belly-of

About Ghosts – very short and very sad

Connor’s essay about his dead parents.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/165582355611/ghosts

Reid meets the American star dancer Homer Jackson.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164966693381/avatoh-scribbledbyhand-avatoh

The Bet

It’s Drakes nuptial and the last time that the trio is together. They have a drink in a pub and place a bet: Who will be the first with new mini me!

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164483732151/the-bet-rs-fanfic

The Business Advice

Caitlin Swift has problems with her father, who annoys her again. In this situation she meets Swift's lackey Matthew Judge and a "cat and mouse" game between them begins.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164020447996/the-business-advice-part-1-of-6

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164128052696/the-business-advice-part-2-of-6

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164165210636/the-business-advice-part-3-of-6

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164165361361/the-business-advice-part-4-of-6

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164165810046/the-business-advice-part-5-of-6

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164166129226/the-business-advice-part-6-of-6

Petticoat Lane

Connor wants to be a pink fairy at Halloween, but not because of personal preferences. There's more to it than that.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/163983567456/petticoat-lane

Nature vs. Nurture

Susan and Jackson must cope with their parenthood. (It’s one chapter of my main Sackson story which is still unpublished, because I’m not sure if it is good enough.)

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/163171899011/rs-writing-club-2nd-story

The ice house in the summer’s heat

Matthew Judge encounter with Caitlin Swift in the ice house.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/163171496446/rs-writing-club-1st-story

Captain Jackson’s Clever Devices

Captain Jackson has invented a strange enlargement tube which – of course – must be tested by the trio.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/163054128971/captain-jacksons-clever-devices

Connor and Mimi’s daughter – very, very small scene to the collages of @like-fruitandroses

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/161391846386/sunlitcartwheels-was-advised-not-to-post

Fancy Dress

Aged buddies Reid and Jackson want to find out what's going on in Connor's club.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/161279094871/fancy-dress-clothing

Space exploration in Victorian Era (alternative story)

Drake takes Connor to the observatory to distract him from the loss of his mother.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/160977318271/space-exploration-in-victorian-era-alternative

Space exploration in Victorian Era

Susan has a special gift for Jackson.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/160540906766/space-exploration-in-victorian-era

Interpersonal Messes

Mimi and Jackson are together, but it seems Mimi has his eye on someone else: Reid. This causes unexpected problems that Reid wants to solve with Susan's help.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/160262269116/interpersonal-messes

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/160293407276/interpersonal-messes-part-ii

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/160298195701/interpersonal-messes-part-iii

Booze, Bread and Blanket

On a rainy day, Reid, Jackson and Drake must spent the night together in a barn and share a bottle of booze, a bread and a blanket.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/160008829601/booze-bread-and-blanket

The two latest fathers Jackson and Drake must cope with their fatherhood.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/159684717566/sorry-one-more-and-ill-be-quiet

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/159679260701/i-should-stop-drinking-said-drake-after-the

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/159643383016/the-noise-was-deafening-thats-why-he-decided-to

The lost Shoe

Reid had an intimate encounter with Mimi in his office. Now, she’s missing a shoe.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/158921771321/the-lost-shoe

Cake Division - Only available on Tumblr

The Pink Bunny

It’s Easter and Drake has an encounter with a pink bunny. It is Jackson in a costume.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/172488530566/the-pink-bunny

Kitson

Jackson, leading pastry chef of the Cake Division, struggles with an order and gets unexpected help by a fluffy fellow.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/165444518956/women-the-most-insufferable-things-in-the-world

The Order

The Cake Division must fight for the profitable contract for the ‘Sunset Retirement Residence House’ funerals.

https://scribbledbyhand.tumblr.com/post/164283161271/culturenlifestyle-stunning-buttercream-floral

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