![]() ![]() "Only great fiction demands us to reset our moral compass and look at our value coordinates all over again. How do we calculate what's important in our lives? Highly recommended." - Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal (starred review) Helen has little idea what lies aheadand what strength she must musterwhen she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer treatment. "Two women who have known each other for fifteen years, spending three weeks together with the weight of one crushing disease. The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women-one sceptical, one stubbornly serene-negotiate their way through Nicolas gruelling treatments. "A book so sensitive, sad, funny, and alive that it surely deserves an honored place on many shelves." - Diana Athill, The Daily Telegraph (UK) From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge. Her voice is full of unexpected humor." - Emily Carter, Minneapolis Star-Tribune Helen Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1942. ![]() "Garner is perhaps most easily introduced to new American readers as the Joan Didion of Australia-a person who writes with a diamond drill, depicting human relationships with such brutal clarity they seem to be rendered for the first time." - April Smith, Los Angeles Times 9780312428174 Our cheapest price for The Spare Room A Novel is 1.64. It reminds us that literature not only can, but must, address the most important subjects, because it does so in ways no other form can." - Claire Messud, Newsweek "My favorite discovery of the year." - Anne Enright ![]()
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