The Spare Room

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