Contents

Author’s Note

Introduction

One: The Background

Two: Beginnings

Three: Schooldays

Four: Bendigo

Five: Death Changes Things

Six: Sex and Sin

Seven: Gigolo, Monk, Pornstar, Prostitute …

Eight: Choosing Straight

Nine: Starting Over

Ten: The Answer is Simple, the Lesson is Easy

Appendix 1: The voyage to Australia

Appendix 2: Hockeys and Sullivans

Appendix 3: The Fyans-Fiennes Connections

Appendix 4: The Millanes and the Goldfields

Appendix 5: The Vexatious Litigant

Appendix 6: Hamilton

Endnotes