Growing up in pre-1950 Sydney, Seaton Daly accepts his gay identity but never finds love until his emigration to America as a successful writer compels a confrontation with his self-doubt, bringing him closer to finding true love 
 It was the common bond of their commonplace 
assurances that held them together, and although at twelve years of age 
he was nor yet able to digest the significance of this, he had become 
quietly aware, perhaps ashamed, of his knowledge of growing secret 
antlers, possibly wings. That among these people he was a changeling. 
But not even to Essie, not even in a whisper or a dream, did he ever 
voice it. ‘I am different.’&nbsp;Fairyland is a poignant and 
captivating semi-autobiographical novel that charts the narrator’s 
coming of age gay in Sydney during the nineteen-thirties and forties; 
his postwar move to America; his successful career as a writer; and his 
lifelong, unfulfilled search for love.&nbsp;This tender and spirited 
novel traces the life of Seaton Daly, who grows up knowing he is 
different from those around him. fearing he is second-rate, but 
remaining true to himself and his quest for love.&nbsp;From his first,
 cruel lover to the salesman who ends up marrying Seaton's best friend, 
Seaton falls in love with men who can’t love him in return. Condemned, 
he believes, to a solitary and loveless existence, Seaton takes comfort 
in the arms of whoever offers it. It is only when he leaves Australia 
for America that he is able to conquer his self-loathing and come close 
to finding the love he has searched for all his life.&nbsp;‘After 
fifty years of secreting part of myself, writing Fairyland was like 
going to a psychiatrist, like fresh air coming into a room.’&nbsp;Sumner Locke Elliott

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