Peter Moylan of lower-middle-class stock, was English, Catholic, a suburbanite, an ex-altar-boy and had been deprived of love as a child. He'd wandered through early life, lost and bewildered until in his forties, a climax of mammoth proportion led to his imprisonment. A chance meeting with a masseuse/prostitute years later on a sub-tropical island in Southeast Asia initiated a two-week liaison of warm, intimate and passionate, objective love that finally and ironically cured him of his suffering.

Inspired by real events, Moylan has created a novel and a female character of mixed race, Pene', to help convey the topsy-turvy journey to his 'place in the sun'. Land of Rhapsody tells the story of a love and trust between father and step-daughter in sharp contrast to the 'locked-out' existence of the author's own childhood and the 'love for sale' offered extensively on the island.

Narrated by Pene', life on the island is seen through the eyes of various characters including the permanent and temporary inhabitants of the home cum guesthouse Peter. his partner, Fiona and Pene', his step-daughter occupy there.

Described by many ex-pats as the most uncompromising, candid and accurate book set in Thailand to appear in recent times, Land of Rhapsody gets to grips in no uncertain terms with Childhood Emotional Neglect and Identity as well as making sense of the much misunderstood, fascinating and deeply rooted differences between cultures of European origin and a wonderfully unique state in Southeast Asia.