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The Flower Girl, 9 Jun 2012
By Ian McAdam

This is a magical story.
I laughed out loud so much at the antics and views of the main character.
A character that you cannot help but take to your heart.
You will love the childlike, uncorrupted manner of this character that carries him along throughout storyline.
If you have ever been to Karon Beach you will love this story. If you haven't been to Karon Beach you will want to go because you will love this story.
I can not recommend this novel high enough.
I loved every word of it.
Please buy it and enjoy it as much as I did.
Guy Lilburne has really excelled with this.

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Chok Dee khrap........ 30 Mar 2013
By Tony Palmer

I found reading this book a joy, but frustrating at the same time. Knowing Steven was innocent and the dipstick detective he had on his case, I could see it ending in tears.
But it didn't and the journey he travelled was filled with ups and downs, laughs and tears.
It helped that I'm also a regular visitor to LOS so can understand the machinations of his whole experience.
The book has a great, fulfilling ending which I found very uplifting.
I'd recommend it as an easy-read, an insight into Thailand from someone who obviously knows. I shall be looking out for the other offerings by this author.

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A DAMNED GOOD READ. June 11, 2012
By MIKE PETTIT

I have just finished reading The Flower Girl and absolutely loved it. I have read all of Guys novels and love his style and how he develops his story lines. I think he is probably the premier mystery and thriller author out of the U.K. today. Guy's stories of the mysteries of the East are enthralling and loaded with first hand knowledge of the people, customs, the very essence of the Land of Smiles.
I try to leave comments on Kindle UK from here in the US but there is a spanner thrown in the works somewhere and they don't go through.
So , I give Guy Lilburne 5 STARS on The Flower Girl and a BIGGER 5 STARS for Cocktails and Dreams.
Write faster Lad, write faster.

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Epic Story! July 14, 2012
By Thomas Joseph Kane

I read 1 or 2 books per week. I downloaded "The Flower Girl" after reading Mr Lilburne's The Thai Dragon and The Kiss of the Dragon. I started to read this last night about 10 pm and did not stop until it was finished in the early hours. This afternoon, I started to read it all over again.....still cannot put it down. I have never done that before. All 3 books are outstanding.

"The Flower Girl" had an old ex Navy Fighter Pilot laughing myself silly in some parts and bawling like a baby in others.

WELL DONE! Mr. Lilburne.....If I ever catch you over in The Land of Smiles, I would be honored to buy you a drink!

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When "Forest Gump" meets "Suzie Wong" ... January 11, 2013
By miki 101 . Michaela

THIS Thai Novel has everything I like in a Thai novel: Joy, love, crime, hope, friendship, Thailand and Thai people's beliefs and religion, and a great personal development of the main character, too.

I started to read the novel late yesterday evening and I read it in 3 hours without stopping...
And it's one of THOSE Thai novels I will read once more for sure. Because it gave me all I want from a good read: I liked the protagonist as well as the minor "players", the setting in Puhket is perfect because I love that island, and it was the first time someone wrote - something positive about Thai prisons! :)

The story starts with Steven West, 38 years old, is leaving Manchester/England for the first time in his live. Destination: Thailand, Island of Puhket. He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and not really ugly, but somehow ... insignificant.
At first it's a bit like watching Forest Gump meeting Suzie Wong :)
After his first adventures involving bargirls, a black eye and a massage parlor, he gets himself a scooter for exploring the island. He also has gotten a certain insight about his money, Thai girls and lady drinks ...
Then he meets Pin the Flower Girl. She is selling roses in the streets - and is visibly pregnant. Her Ex, a Leeds character called Dean has a tattoo and a temper, and slowly Pin opens up to Steven and tells him her sad story. Then, on one of their excursions - after visiting the Zoo and a temple where a monk gives them both his blessings and a wristlet to Steven, Pin shows him her secret place. Where the story with Dean ended once and for all...

Steven's fate takes an ugly turn when the police comes to arrest him for the murder of Pin and her unborn child. The leading Detective on the case is a playboy called Sawat Deewat. He is only for 12 months in the police for making merit with Buddha. And, at first he has no intentions to listen to Steven's story - because it's too bizarre to believe.
So Steven will be put into the Puhket Provincial Prison, where he will have some strange encounters. But being a kind character with a jai dee - a good heart - he will find friends and supporters. And the truth will come out and Steven will find his real vocation...

Having read The Thai Dragon, The Kiss of the Dragon, and Cocktails & Dreams, this is an entirely different kind of story.
And I liked it because who knows Thailand and the Thai a bit, also knows something about their beliefs in Phii - ghosts. The foreigner will laugh and say - what a superstitious kinda folks. I say - lucky they are, with an imagination so colourful we farangs can't even imagine in our dreams ...

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Flower Girl, 9 Jun 2012
By Ian McAdam
This review is from: The Flower Girl (Kindle Edition)
This is a magical story.
I laughed out loud so much at the antics and views of the main character.
A character that you cannot help but take to your heart.
You will love the childlike, uncorrupted manner of this character that carries him along throughout storyline.
If you have ever been to Karon Beach you will love this story. If you haven't been to Karon Beach you will want to go because you will love this story.
I can not recommend this novel high enough.
I loved every word of it.
Please buy it and enjoy it as much as I did.
Guy Lilburne has really excelled with this.