The Spare Room Helen Garner Review

The spare room.

The spare room helen garner review.

If you ve read monkey grip or the first stone or joe cinque s consolation you ll know some of the helen in the spare room. The spare room. Reviewed by sean o beirne. She s good company good in a book.

The spare room was published in 2008. The spare room is a shortish novel from 2008 by the australian writer helen garner. By helen garner. All the action takes place over the course of three weeks and describes the experience of a woman in melbourne helen as she finds herself looking after a friend from sydney nicola who is dying of bowel cancer.

It was published to critical acclaim. 195pp canongate 12 99 i learned to wash her arse says our narrator about her incontinent cancer ridden friend as gently as i had washed my sister s and. Friday 18 july 2008 00 00 morethanten total comments.