Ek Vishranti Sthal by Helen Garner

In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the joys and limits of female friendship under the transforming pressure of illness. "The clear-eyed grace of her prose" in this darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey as"the work of a great writer." Garlanded with awards, dazzling reviewers around the globe,"The Spare Room" is destined to be a modern literary classic.