Night of the Water Spirits

In a spellbinding tale of age-old taboos and modern relationships set amidst the gleaming shrines and candle-lit waterways of Bangkok, Panda Duncanson searches for a sense of belonging in a world that has become a global village and doesn’t quite allow anybody to belong anywhere.

When Panda’s American cousin first comes to Bangkok, he throws a lizard at her and she bites him. Yet on a night when the country’s waterways are alight with a myriad tiny candles, their relationship takes a different turn; one that draws them together again as adults and, in spite of turbulent marriages to other people, leads them to defy some of society’s most fervently held taboos.

From Bangkok’s glittering temples to one of Indonesia’s most desolate islands to the white sand beaches of Thailand’s southern coast as a tsunami thunders in, Night of the Water Spirits is a story of passion and betrayal, of powerful spirits and clashing beliefs, of warring drug lords and real life dragons, of a search for a sense of belonging in a world that is increasingly becoming a global village.