The Good Boys

Lenny Parker was expecting a quiet summer on the farm: helping her dad with the horses, hanging out with her friends and her new boyfriend Josh in the town, trying to forget what happened last year.

She didn’t expect the Good boys from the neighbouring farm to come home from boarding school—not this year, not after the accident. Lenny knows nothing can ever be the same with the boys she grew up with. Especially not with Frederick. He’ll never forgive her—she knows that. She’ll never forgive herself.

It’s okay though. She has her new friends, and they don’t know her secret. She’ll just have to keep it that way.

But Frederick is here. And her feelings for him and her memories of what they had last together summer can’t be so easily put aside. And Lenny soon has no option but to confront her guilt.

Last summer broke Lenny’s heart. Can this one mend it?

‘Glows with heart and humour…A tender, affirming read…about love, art, and letting colour back into your life.’ CBCA Reading Time on Golden

‘Exactly what we need in Australian young adult fiction right now—it is authentic, readable, relatable and dark without being depressing.’ Karys McEwen, author of The Paperbark Tree Committee, on Golden

‘A beautifully written young adult novel that takes you on an emotional journey.’ Buzzwords on Golden

‘An exceptional glimpse into how one family grapples with grief and change.’ Book Muse on Golden