'Expat exit' a new thriller by Patricia Snel
It has been several years since a blog reader, in a response to an article, the subject of which I no longer remember, candidly said that she had come to Thailand with her husband, but that the marriage had broken down. I do not know whether the cause of the subsequent divorce has to do with the man's adultery, but it is quite conceivable in a country with so many beautiful and sweet ladies.
I thought of her when I read the details and reviews of Patricia Snel's latest thriller, “Exit expat” on several websites. It is already her sixth crime novel in a series. As an expat woman, she lived in the Cayman Islands and Singapore for years, but returned to Amsterdam after her divorce.
Patricia tells
She says about this book in an interview on the bol.com website: “Expat exit” is an oppressive thriller about freedom, love and inner strength. It's about the vulnerability of women. The expat world is still a fairly traditional world. Usually the wife gives up her job for her husband's international career. They decide together that the woman will take care of the children. Besides work and home, you also leave your family and friends behind. The adventure beckons.
The fact that things often go wrong, expat marriages on the rocks, makes you extra vulnerable as a woman abroad. Being divorced in Singapore myself, I have never felt so dependent and lost. How are you trying to get your life back on track? How do you get control over your banking affairs, while it is in the hands of your husband, because he is the one who manages the bank account, because abroad it can only be opened in his name? I also processed that emotion and pain and fear in Expat exit.”
Short content of Expat exit
Elisa leads a wonderful life in Curaçao. Sun, sea, beach, dear friends, a career man and a fantastic son. But then disaster strikes. Her husband leaves her for someone else and demands full custody of their son. Trapped on the island, Elisa tries to get her life back on track. After a serious boating accident in which Sam's boyfriend is seriously injured, Elisa is held responsible. All hope seems lost. She ends up in a battle over drugs and money. Elisa will have to risk her life to get her child back and escape the stranglehold of the criminal environment. Paradise seems further away than ever.
If you Google Patricia Snel, you will see several websites about her and her books. Below is a short video in which Patricia talks about Exit expat:
About this blogger
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Bert Gringhuis (1945), born and raised in Almelo in the beautiful Twente. Later lived for many years in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, working in export for various companies. I first came to Thailand in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the country. Been back many times since then and moved to Thailand after my (early) retirement as a widower. I have been living there for 22 years now with my somewhat younger Thai lady Poopae.
My first experiences in Thailand as a kind of newsletter sent to family, friends and acquaintances, which later appeared under the name Gringo on Thailandblog. Many, many articles followed those first stories and that has grown into an almost daily hobby.
In the Netherlands still an avid footballer and football referee, but the years are starting to tell and in Thailand still avid, but the pool billiards is really of inferior quality, ha ha!
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The thriller is of course fiction and you should not equate it with reality.
But he paints a real situation.
And then my thought. What is the difference between a Dutch expat wife, in short a Dutch wife and a Thai wife,
None, in my experience.
Both just want money because you left them 'in their selfishness'.
In the end, there was no love, not even at the beginning. Of personal interests.
But as a man you are defenseless and you have to bleed.
Incidentally, I have nothing against a marriage of convenience, as was customary in the Netherlands until before WW2 and is still the case in Thailand in the better circles.
Now it's all become love. Difficult!