Sample: Chapter One
THE BEGINNING
Book Seven in the Series
Behind The Smile
The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya
by
OWEN JONES
BAAN SUAY, NORTH THAILAND, 1972Pang followed her husband and parents off the large, shaded table that served for breaks from the burning Thai sun when working in the rice fields. They had just finished their midday meal having started at seven, and there were another five gruelling hours to complete before they could go home. However, they were lucky, they were working their own na, or rice fields, as most of the villagers were hired labourers. Her grandparents had worked hard to buy a few plots of land on the edge of the forest and they had spent years clearing them so that they were fit to grow top quality rice - the crop that the area was famous for.
