The Spare Room

In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the joys and limits of female friendship under the transforming pressure of illness. The clear-eyed grace of her prose in this darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey as the work of a great writer. Garlanded with awards, dazzling reviewers around the globe, The Spare Room is destined to be a modern literary classic.