The Spare Room Helen Garner Review

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The spare room helen garner review.

The spare room is a shortish novel from 2008 by the australian writer helen garner. 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. 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. The spare room was published in 2008.

By helen garner. Friday 18 july 2008 00 00 morethanten total comments. Reviewed by sean o beirne. The spare room is a novel by australian writer helen garner set over the course of three weeks while the narrator helen cares for a friend dying of bowel cancer.

The spare room. In her native australia helen garner is known for using the material of her life as the bedrock of her novels. It was published to critical acclaim.