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  The Spare Room

 
The Spare Room
Author:    Helen Garner
ISBN:    9781921351396
ISBN-10:    192135139X
Publisher:    Text Publishing Co
Date Published:    7/04/2008
Format:    Hardback Book
Pages:    208
Language:    English
RRP: $29.95
PRICE: $28.15
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Book Description:
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis. Isn't that supposed to align the sleeper with the planet's positive energy flow, or something? She would think so. I made it up nicely with a fresh fitted sheet, the pale pink one, since she had a famous feel for colour, and pink is flattering even to skin that has turned yellowish. Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge. The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicola's gruelling treatments. Garner's dialogue is pitch perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale.


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Review by Janine 
"The Spare Room" although fiction, reads like a memoir. The main character is Helen who is nursing a close friend through the final stages of cancer just ;ole she did in real life. This is not a sad miserable book but a touching and heart-felt one. It will move you and make you smile and maybe have you appreciating life just that little bit more.

This is Helen Garner’s first novel in over 15 years and what a beautiful work of fiction it is. I was rather unsure about reading this at first, having lost someone recently to cancer, but don’t let that put you off. I am so glad I read this and have since passed it on to many friends and family members who have also fallen in love with it.

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