Daddy's Hobby
By Owen Jones
The seven-part 'Behind The Smile' Series is the story of Lek, a bar girl in Pattaya, Thailand. Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family in the northern rice belt of Thailand. A catastrophe occurred out of the blue one day – her father died young with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was just twenty years of age, and the only one who could prevent the foreclosure of the family farm, and allow her younger sister and two brothers to continue their education. However, the only way she knew how
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Daddy’s Hobby
The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl In Pattaya
Volume one in the Behind The Smile series.
Lek went to the bar Daddy’s Hobby, in Pattaya, as a Pattaya bar girl, waitress-cum-cashier. That was until she realised that she was pregnant by her estranged husband, and everything changed. After having the baby, a girl, whom she left with her mother on the farm, she needed real money to provide a better life for her child. She gradually drifted into the tourist sex industry.
Pattaya Bar Girl
The adventures, dreams and sometimes nightmares – this is Lek’s reality of what it’s really like to be a Thai bar girl. The exhilarating hopes that cover up the frustrations, let-downs, lies and deceit of daily life, give way to the dream of a normal life when she meets a new man, yet again.
When this new man returns for a real life relationship, Lek is ecstatic. However, she finds it’s not so easy to go through the good and bad of couplehood.
Will they stay together, and for how long? Will she ever be able to trust a man enough again either? Or will she go back to the bar girl life?
Behind The Smile
The seven-part Behind The Smile Series is the story of Lek, a bar girl in Pattaya, Thailand. Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family in the northern rice belt of Thailand. A catastrophe occurred out of the blue one day. Her father died young with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was just twenty years of age. And the only one who could prevent the foreclosure of the family farm, and allow her younger sister and two brothers to continue their education. However, the only way she knew how was to go to work in her cousin’s bar in Pattaya.
Can a Pattaya bar girl ever go back to being a regular girlfriend or wife?
Behind The Smile is a look into one part of Thailand, a country known around the world as ‘The Land of Smiles’.
Daddy’s Hobby – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl In Pattaya is also available in the following languages at most bookshops:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
It is also an audiobook in English and Spanish.
If you would like to translate it into another language, or narrate it, please email me.
Availability
available
Categories
Series
Publish Date
2022-04-12
Published Year
2022
Publisher Name
Total Pages
365
ISBN
9781476154763
Format
ebook
Country
UK
Language
English
File Size
112,000 words
Dimension
6"x9"
File Format
ePub
Text-To-Speech
Enabled
Screen Reader
supported
Enhanced Typesetting
Enabled
X-Ray
Enabled
Word Wise
Enabled
Sticky Notes
In most bookshops
Print Length
365 pages
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Readers Feedback
Enjoyed it tremendously

W.D.
Right Up My Alley

Vanna B.
From the first pages I was mesmerised by Lek

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