num_pages: 351
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Good Parents
publisher: Vintage