The Spare Room

From "the Joan Didion of Australia" a novel of female friendship written "with a diamond drill, depicting human relationships with such brutal clarity" (April Smith, Los Angeles Times).

How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead—and what strength she must muster—when she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer treatment. Skeptical of the medical establishment, and placing all her faith ...