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The Spare Room

By Helen Garner

Book information

Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2007
ISBN
9781921776441, 9781921520280
Language
english
Format
AZW
Filesize
212 kB (217316 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2025-04-21 18:01:23

Description

The Spare Room Winner of the Victorian and Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for Fiction. The Spare Room is an extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers. 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 gruelling therapy, stumbling towards the novel's terrible and transcendent finale.

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