{{Short description|2008 novel by Joan London}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = The Good Parents | orig title = | translator = | image = The Good Parents (novel).jpg | caption = First edition (AUS) | image_size = | author = Joan London | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = Vintage Books (AUS)<br>Grove Press (US)<br>Atlantic Books (UK) | release_date = April 2008 | media_type = Print (paperback) | pages = | isbn = 1-74166-793-3 | oclc = 213329704 | preceded_by = Gilgamesh | followed_by = The Golden Age }}

'''''The Good Parents''''' is a 2008 novel by Joan London.<ref>{{cite web|title= ''The Good Parents'' by Joan London|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4235919|access-date= 23 July 2024}}</ref>

==Synopsis== The book concerns an eighteen-year-old girl, Maya de Jong, who moves to Melbourne and becomes involved in a relationship with her boss. When Maya's parents come to Melbourne to stay with her, they find that Maya has disappeared.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9781741667936|title=The Good Parents, Random House Australia}}</ref> London says of the role of parents with older children, "There's nothing much you can do, except wait and be there".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/the-pain-of-waiting-20080405-gds86e.html|title=Sydney Morning Herald book review}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

* 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction<ref>{{cite web|title="Christina Stead Prize for Fiction: 1979 to present" |publisher= University Libraries|url=https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341672&p=2299461|access-date= 23 July 2024}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2208021.htm Interview with Joan London, ABC Radio National ''The Book Show'', 21 August 2008]

{{New South Wales Premier's Prize for Fiction}}

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