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Decca Aitkenhead

Decca Aitkenhead’s travel piece from Thailand, ‘Lovely Girls, Very Cheap’, appeared in Granta 73. Her account of her world tour of dance clubs, The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E (2002), is published by Fourth Estate in the UK.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 73 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 73 padlock

Lovely Girls, Very Cheap

Decca Aitkenhead

‘A bar girl in Ko Samui is employed to attract customers. Almost every bar has at least one girl, and some of the larger bars have up to twenty’.

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