Daddy’s Hobby – paperback

Description

Daddy’s Hobby

The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya

The first book in the series called

Behind The Smile

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 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

Lek went to the bar ‘Daddy’s Hobby’, in Pattaya, as a waitress-cum-cashier, 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 and drifted into the tourist sex industry.

The adventures, dreams and sometimes nightmares, this is Lek’s point of view 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 finds that it’s not so easy going 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 her old bar girl life?

What Readers Are Saying About Daddy’s Hobby

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Christoph Fischer
“Daddy’s Hobby is an insightful look into the life of a Thai bar girl. It is a moving story that shines through its exemplary realism. Jones shows real life drama as I imagine it much more likely than stories on the subject that I have read.”
(Goodreads)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Russell Cork
“Well written story, the author got the bar lifestyle 100% correct, well worth a book to read. I would be interested to know what other books the author has written.”
(Amazon)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Matt Carrell (Goodreads)
“Daddy’s Hobby is an entertaining and poignant take on the Thai bar scene. Owen understands the true dynamic that exists between the women who populate the bar scene and the customers who flock to meet them.”
(Goodreads)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vanna B.
“I enjoyed this book very much and would recommend it. Owen did a great job of creating a character readers could connect with and care about. The story gave a real sense of Thai culture and bar life.”
(Goodreads)

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Murray Bromley
“The book gave me an outlook of some people that was very interesting, and I am looking forward to reading the second novel. Keep up the good work!”
(Goodreads)