The Good Parents - Joan London

The Good Parents

By: Joan London

Paperback | 1 April 2009 | Edition Number 1

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'London's prose is a seamlessly shifting blend of poetry, pathos and humor.' -- The Washington Post

'London's prose is a seamlessly shifting blend of poetry, pathos and humor.' -- The Washington Post

WINNER OF THE 2009 CHRISTINA STEAD AWARD FOR FICTION.

Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they are told by her housemate that Maya has gone away and no one knows where she is. As Toni and Jacob wait and search for Maya in Melbourne, everything in their lives is brought into question. They recall the yearning and dreams, the betrayals and choices of their pasts - choices with unexpected and irrevocable consequences. With Maya's disappearance, the lives of all those close to her come into focus, to reveal the complexity of the ties that bind us to one another, to parents, children, siblings, friends and lovers.

Pacy and enthralling, The Good Parents is at once a vision of contemporary Australia and a story as old as fairytales- that of a runaway girl.
Industry Reviews
"Although you are tickled by the urge to know what happens in the end, this is a novel you read slowly, with steadily increasing pleasure and interest, getting to know the widely varied and vividly realized characters, savoring the experience of so thoroughly Inhabiting someone else's world and taking it away with you at the end." -- Katharine England

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