A couple of years ago, the author moved next door to the King of
Thailand working as an editor of an online magazine published in Hua
Hin, a seaside town. At the time, the king lived there permanently in
his summer palace known in Thai as the Klang Kangnon palace, which
delightfully translates as 'Far from Worries'. The book is a chronicle
of the author's year there, but in a larger sense, it is a portrait of
contemporary Thailand; part memoir, part history and part travel book.