A Way of Love by James Courage

Bruce Quantock is an architect and a bachelor. Mature, accomplished, cultured and worldly. One cold evening in early December, he attends a performance of Schubert’s Symphony at London’s Festival Hall. Leaving the concert, his life suddenly changes when his chin brushes against a stranger’s cheek – a younger man with tigerish eyes – as he reaches for a coat on the floor. Caught in each other’s glances, an energy detonates between them. From then on, neither man can shake the other out of their thoughts. 

Yet Bruce, forty-nine years old, and his younger suitor, Philip Dill, come from different generations. Bruce is professionally secure but also – due to years of experience – comfortable with his sexuality. Philip is precarious, emotionally explosive, and yet to find his place in the world. He also struggles to admit that he is one of ‘them,’ one of those – that he calls with disdain – ‘types.’  

James Courage (1903–63) was a New Zealand–born novelist who spent most of his life in England. He had a prolific literary career, and wrote eight novels, several plays, and numerous short stories. Published by the leading literary publishers of his day, his many novels have since fallen out of print.