Does anyone know what this book is called?

[Longtallgirl1]

Bit of a long shot. I reads it in the early 90s so it's quite old.

It's about a girl who moves to London. Can't even remember if she moves with her family or not. I think she has a brother.

I just remember that she is looking out of her window and there are trees lining the street, she must have moved from the countryside.

Think there was an attic room, she eventually settles and makes a friend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/s/p86Esxqx6A

Try Reddit, they have a whole community who are pretty good at that kind of thing

Is this a Penguins classic orange and white book? Part of a trilogy? You've sparked a memory and I've been googling ever since and now it's driving me mad!

Do you mean the Country Girls trilogy by Edna O'brien?

No, that came up on my googling but it's definitely not that.

It's still driving me mad.

The L shaped room? Sounds grittier than what you are describing though.

OMG THANK YOU!!!! That's the one I was thinking of!!

Amazing, I can't tell you how happy you've made me!! I don't know if it's the one OP was thinking of but that's the one I thought of straightaway, I just couldn't remember the name.

@apostrophewoman don't know why the name stuck in my mind, I read it about 40 years ago. Glad to have helped out!

Thank you, it's not The L shaped room.

I might try on Reddit.

I'm wondering if it's Back Home by Michelle Magorian. But that doesn't seem to be set in London.

Sounds like The Magic Toyshop, Angela Carter

One of my all time favourites 🙂

Doesn't remind me of Back Home.

In that Rusty moved back from USA but to a village not London, she got on okish finding it hard to adjust to rationing, English expectations on behaviour and her unpleasnt father's family.

She was then sent to boarding school and was very unhappy there. Made friends with a boy from a nearby boys' school and escaped unhappiness to an abadoned cottage - but that also wasn't in London either.

I was quite the fan of the book 🤣 Don't recall tree lined street - unless that was her recalling her life in the states of course.

Actually I think Back Home was maybe another book.

It's so annoying when you can only remember little bits.

I can just remember the girl arriving and being very homesick and looking up the street and noting that there were trees. I'm certain it was London.

A Little Princess?