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2 Novels by Sumner Locke Elliott
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Overview: Sumner Locke Elliott was born in Sydney (Australia) to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, Careful, He Might Hear You. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney.
Elliott became an actor and writer with the Doris Fitton's The Independent Theatre Ltd.. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942, but instead of being posted overseas, he worked as a clerk in Australia. He used these experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, Rusty Bugles. The play toured extensively throughout Australia and achieved the notoriety of being closed down for obscenity by the Chief Secretary's Office.
However, Rusty Bugles' place in the history of Australian theatre rests on more than notoriety. Mac is a memorable character in the play, and in the first production, Frank O'Donnell transformed audiences' understanding of the typical Australian 'bludger' or 'scrounger'. To the men in his unit, he appeared a winner even when he was losing, but with the discovery of his wife's infidelity, his fragility becomes apparent.
Elliott moved to the United States in 1948, where he ranked in the pantheon of leading playwrights during the Golden Age of live television dramas, writing more than 30 original plays and numerous adaptations for such shows as Philco-Goodyear Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One and Playhouse 90. He also wrote a play Buy Me Blue Ribbons, which had a short run on Broadway.
In 1955, he obtained United States citizenship and did not return to Australia until 1974. His TV play The Grey Nurse Said Nothing aired on TV in the US and Australia.
Elliott's best known novel, Careful, He Might Hear You, won the 1963 Miles Franklin Award and was turned into a film in 1983.
Genre: General Fiction



Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott (1963)
It's the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided to take proper care of him.
Careful, He Might Hear You is one of the most extraordinary portraits of childhood in Australian fiction.
Winner of the 1963 Miles Franklin Award for Literature

Fairyland (1990)
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.’

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.
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.
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.
"After fifty years of secreting part of myself, writing Fairyland was like going to a psychiatrist, like fresh air coming into a room."
Sumner Locke Elliot

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Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott (1963)
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Fairyland (1990)
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Added Fairyland (1990)

Fairyland (1990)
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.’

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.
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.
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.

"After fifty years of secreting part of myself, writing Fairyland was like going to a psychiatrist, like fresh air coming into a room."
Sumner Locke Elliot