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The Storm We Made

Vanessa Chan

British Malaya, 1930s. Discontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara and the glorious future he is promising for 'independent' Malaya, free from British colonialism. As she becomes further embedded as his own personal spy, she unwittingly alters the fate of her country by welcoming in a punishing form of dictatorship under the Japanese in WWII. Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945. Cecily and her family are barely surviving. Her children, Jujube, Abel and Jasmin, are surrounded by threat, and look to their mother to keep them safe. But she can't tell them about the part she played in the war - and she doesn't know how to protect them any longer, with the new regime in place. Can Cecily face up to her past to save her children? Or is it already too late...?

GenresMalayaHistoryJapanese occupation, 1942-1945Fiction

352 pages, 8 editions

English edition · First published 2024 by Hodder & Stoughton · ISBN 9781399712576

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Editions

8 editions

English

  • The Storm We Made · Hodder & Stoughton · 2024 · ISBN 9781399712576 · 1 reader This page
  • The Storm We Made · Hodder · 2025 · ISBN 9781399712613
  • The Storm We Made: A Novel (Thorndike Press; Large Print Diverse Voices) · Thorndike Press Large Print · 2024 · ISBN 9781420513622
  • The Storm We Made · Hodder & Stoughton · 2024 · ISBN 9781399712590
  • The Storm We Made: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick · S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books · 2024 · ISBN 9781668056394
  • The Storm We Made · Simon & Schuster · 2024 · ISBN 9781668015162
  • The Storm We Made: A Novel · Blackstone Publishing Inc · 2024 · ISBN 9781797166261
  • The Storm We Made · Hodder & Stoughton · 2024 · ISBN 9781399712583

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