Book review - The Spare Room
August 7th, 2008
Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.
Helen Garner’s The Spare Room deserves to be widely read and would be an ideal Reading Group novel. A dying friend comes to stay, bringing with her a whole raft of responsibilities and unthinkable emotions. Nicola, the friend, has embarked on a gruelling course of questionable treatment at an alternative clinic with no medical credentials. Garner deals with her subject of impending death and how it stretches the bond of friendship to almost breaking point in a way that makes it totally real but without sentimentality.
The Spare Room, Helen Garner, Cannongate, £12.99, 9781847672650
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