Courage’s seventh novel, A Way of Love, centred on the London gay scene of the 1950s, particularly the relationship between a middle-aged man and his younger partner. The novel was banned in Courage’s native New Zealand for perceived indecency and lack of redeeming literary merit.

The UK edition of A Way of Love is displayed open at a statement, located prior to the title page, which seems to exist to reassure the reader that a novel about gay love is “as valid a subject for a serious novel as any other in our modern world”.