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.
Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of
stories, Sister Ships, which won the Age Book of the Year in 1986,
and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994
and the West Australian Premier's Award for fiction. These stories
have been published in one volume as The New Dark Age. Her first
novel, Gilgamesh, was published in 2001, won the Age Book of the
Year for fiction and was longlisted for the Orange Prize and the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, The
Good Parents, was published in 2008 and won the Christina Stead
Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Joan
London's books have all been published internationally to critical
acclaim.
The Golden Age (2014), Joan London's third novel, won the Prime
Minister's Literary Award for fiction, the Kibble Literary Award,
the Western Australian Premier's Award for fiction and the
Queensland Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the
Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Stella Prize, the ALS Gold Medal
and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier's
Literary Awards.
In 2015, Joan London was named a Western Australian State Living
Treasure, and was also the recipient of the Patrick White Award,
for a lifetime's 'outstanding contribution to Australian
literature'. The judges described her body of work as 'quiet,
poetic prose that opens up worlds, both real and imagined, of
travel, desire, loss and love . . . London's nomadic characters
travel through space and time affirming through their relationships
and varied histories a global humanity.'
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