And you know what love is like – the more you know, the deeper you fall. And I was struck by the savagery of Hat Nai Yang’s history, and the beautiful calm of today. Hat Nai Yang looks out at the Andaman coast of southern Thailand – it was this peaceful sea that the Tsunami of Boxing Day, 2004 came out of. Because this place has also witnessed terrible destruction. It is totally unspoilt, totally peaceful – and that sense of peace really got to me – as both a traveller, and a writer. The only boats were the longtails of the fishermen. I was standing on the sand at Hat Nai Yang – Nai Yang beach – in the far north of Phuket and I looked out at the perfect bow-shaped bay and realised that I had never seen such a vision of unspoilt natural beauty in all my life. I had been going to Thailand for over 20 years and then one day I fell in love with it. So I felt that I had discovered a secret beach that nobody knows about. Two million visitors go to Phuket every year but almost nobody stays in the north – those 2 million head south and west. Also, I liked the fact that almost nobody knows about that part of Thailand. Tony Parsons: The inspiration for CATCHING THE SUN was falling in love with the far north of Phuket – for its calm, and beauty, and history. What was the inspiration behind Catching the Sun? We enjoyed Tony Parson's latest novel Catching the Sun and we really wanted to know more about the background to the book when Tony popped into Bookbag Towers.
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