The style is lively and engaging, but the biggest surprise is how funny it is, with more laugh-out-loud lines than you ever thought you’d read in a book about psychology (other than that did you enjoy the play, Mrs Lincoln?’).

The 30 year old who shakes your hand warmly is nothing like a ‘throwback’, as Australians have snobbishly been described in a recent profile on his Suicide Squad co-star Margot Robbie. Courtney has the air of someone who belongs. He’s urbane, focused and – when he starts to talk – still unmistakably Australian.

“It would have set freedom of speech and imagination back by decades,” says Smashwords CEO Mark Coker. “It would have jeopardised the ability to publish and sell mainstream fiction.” On February 18, the company, which enables authors to self publish their own ebooks and provides the platform for readers to discover and buy them, received a chilling missive from Paypal.