First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis.<\/p>\n
The Spare Room<\/em>, Helen Garner<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n I heard this author talking about her book on radio and needed to know more.\u00a0 If not for the radio interview, I wouldn’t have bought a book about life’s end.\u00a0 But she was touching, leaving me wanting to find the book that day, buy it and read it.<\/p>\n There’ll be gaps in my posting for a while – I’ve moved, for a brief while, to France.\u00a0 But I have access to shelves of books I wouldn’t normally read, and they might have some intriguing first lines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis. The Spare Room, Helen Garner ***** I heard this author talking about her book on radio and needed to know more.\u00a0 If not for the radio interview, I wouldn’t have bought a book about life’s end.\u00a0 But she was touching, leaving … <\/p>\n