The Spare Room

In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the joys & 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.

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HELEN GARNER writes novels, stories, screenplays, & works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, & in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, & her diaries Yellow Notebook, One Day I’ll Remember This, & How to End a Story.