Lynne Reid Banks (Letters, 30 November) seems to have forgotten that an adult view of what 12-year-olds should or should not read makes absolutely no difference at all: her own compassionate study of love and unmarried pregnancy in a London bedsit, The L-Shaped Room, was the must-read novel at my convent school in the early 1970s. My own copy, bought from a junk shop to the gleeful instruction "Keep that one under yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34PM on December 3, 2015