![]() ![]() “Exceptional … an unsettling and skilled work that raises important questions about the process of dying and what caring well for the dying requires … So powerful is The Spare Room’s communication of the the triumphs and failures involved in dying … the reader painfully ricochets between the various positions … Somehow as we read we actually become these characters … This extraordinary effect results in an uncomfortable read. Nicola has arrived in the city for treatment for. The Spare Room achieves this … And yet in a book this spare, written with such grace, Garner introduces in the interstices a calm, precise poetry” Helen has little idea what lies ahead when she offers her spare room to an old friend of fifteen years. ![]() A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two. Her award-winning books include novels, stories, screenplays, and works of nonfiction, including Monkey. Read The Spare Room A Novel by Helen Garner available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() ![]() “Only great fiction demands us to reset our moral compass and look at our value coordinates all over again. Helen Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1942. How is it that she can enter this heartbreaking territory - the dying friend who comes to stay - and make it not only bearable, but glorious, and funny? There is no answer except: Helen Garner is a great writer The Spare Room is a great book” “A perfect novel, imbued with all Garner’s usual clear-eyed grace but with some other magnificent dimension that hides between the lines of her simple conversational voice. ![]()
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