Catching the sun - Tony Parsons

The Finn family arrive on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand, in search of their dreams - of an earthly Eden where everyone wears a smile, the sunshine never stops and the good life is there to be taken.

Phuket is an island paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the rainforest, the sea is like turquoise glass, and a young family is free to grow. 

But paradise has a heart of darkness and disasters made by man and nature conspire to shatter the tropical idyll - and threaten to tear their family apart.