The Spare RoomHelen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three week visit. But this is no ordinary visitNicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel, and her stony judge. The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two womenone sceptical, one