Full of his own self-importance and superiority, confirmed bachelor Bernard Capehart of the British Foreign Office accepts a two-year position in his country’s Thailand Embassy and looks forward to experiencing life in Bangkok. Or, to be more precise, the willing and submissive beauties of the Patpong club-scene likely to take both his pleasure and his sense of self-importance stratospheric. What he finds instead is a young Thai housekeeper who, while she is certainly no beauty, recognises him for the kind of man he truly is at core. A man who is neither important nor superior and will be remaining in her country for far longer than two years. A time during which she will no longer be his housekeeper! A short work of female-led fiction from Declan Somersby.