The Spare Room

"When Helen invites her old friend Nicola to stay in her spare room, she had no idea what she is taking on: for Nicola has cancer, and from the moment she staggers through the front door, imperious, deluded and maddeningly endearing, she turns Helen's life inside out." "In the three weeks that follow, Helen is driven through extremes of rage and tenderness to become Nicola'a nurse, protector, guardian angel and stony judge." "The Spare Room is a 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."--BOOK JACKET.