The Not So Odd Couple

About the Book

The Not Odd So Odd Couple tells the story of two gay men Les and Warren how they met and fell in love and about the hardships they faced in the early sixties concealing their sexuality at a predominately homophobic time, although they found that they fitted in well with all forms of society. Their path took them to places where they worked among iron ore miners then back to the city where they threw outrageous parties and worked in a variety of different jobs .They grew tired of the city life and headed off to the country to try their hand at living off the land and become self sufficient but after years of drought they decided to return to a suburban lifestyle in a small coastal town. By now as they realised they were getting older, their love for each other had grown even stronger and they became more concerned for each other’s welfare and then sadly after 46 wonderful years together, they were parted by the untimely death of Warren.

About the Author

I grew up in the small country town of Henty NSW, the youngest of seven children of my widowed mother. I left school at the age of fifteen and started my first job as an apprentice mechanic. I soon found this type of work was not for me and I moved to the larger town of Albury where I took a job selling refrigerators. By the time I was twenty one I had saved enough money to book a passage to London on the SS Orontes where I worked for the famous men’s outfitters, Moss Bros and travelled the world working as a steward with Orient Shipping Line. On my return to Australia on the maiden voyage of the Italian liner, the Marconi, I settled in Sydney where I met my partner Warren and felt the story of the next forty six years with him until his death, should be told.