Title: The Spare Room
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2008
Description: Like Carol Shields, Joan Didion and Kate Grenville in previous years, Helen Garner is a bestselling writer waiting to be discovered by a British audience. The Spare Room is an electrifying novel about the distance a friendship must travel, and the depths it must plumb, when confronted by the threat of death. It is full of wisdom, dark laughter and truth.

Prizes for The Spare Room:

 - Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction     
 - Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction     
 - Barbara Jefferis Award     
 - Shortlisted, WA Premier’s Awards, 2008     
 - Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction     
 - Shortlisted, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize     
 - Shortlisted, Australian Literary Society Gold Medal     
 - Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award
Subjects: Alternative treatment, Literature, Cancer, Fiction, Patients, Female friendship, Australian women writers, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, general, Cancéreux, Romans, nouvelles, Médecines parallèles, Amitié féminine, English literature, Treatment, Friendship, Fiction, medical
LC classification: PR9619.3.G3 S73 2008