Lily wasn’t even a teenager when her ‘uncle’ started abusing her. It took her two years, but she did find a way of stopping him once and for all and all on her own. She also made quite a nest egg from it into the bargain, but the memory never went away.
But then, it never does, does it ?
Lily moved away from the village where everyone knew her history and went to Bangkok as a medical student using the money she had made to pay for her tuition.
After a month, Lily, the country girl from Isaan, Eastern Thailand, realised that the ‘fortune’ that she had would not be enough, so she took drastic measures to ensure that she could stay in university.
The measures were every mother’s nightmare, except for Lily’s, because she was still traumatised by what had happened in Lily’s childhood.
However, Lily did not know that, she thought that her parents just didn’t care.
The consequences of the events in Lily’s life sent shock waves through Bangkok society and ultimately death.
Death for many people and all of them men.
Except one.
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‘White Lily of Bangkok’ is my entry into the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) annual event in which people are encouraged to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. This is an international event, with over 250,000 entrants.
Writing 50,000 words in a month is achievable with an out put of only 1,700 words a day. The book does not have to be published or even formatted in November, so if you want to join, just search for their website and start. It is free and there a a lot of support for those who need it.
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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.
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