The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Helen lovingly prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola. She is coming to visit for three weeks, to receive treatment she believes will cure her cancer.
From the moment Nicola staggers off the plane, gaunt and hoarse but still somehow grand, Helen becomes her nurse, her guardian angel and her stony judge.
The Spare Room tells a story of compassion, humour and rage. The two women—one sceptical, one stubbornly serene—negotiate an unmapped path through Nicola’s bizarre therapy. Garner's dialogue is pitch perfect, her sense of pacing flawless, as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale.
Format: Hardback | 208 pages
Dimensions (cm): 22.1 x 14.1 x 2 | 340g
Publication Date: 07 Apr 2008
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication City/Country: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
Edition Statement: UK edition
ISBN10: 1847672655
ISBN13: 9781847672650
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. No obvious damage to the cover. The dust jacket is included and in good condition (very minor scuff marks along the edges, and a 3cm tear on the front inside inside flap). All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.