Malaysia, 1945. As WW2 rages, will a mother's choice affect her children forever?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.Can Cecily face up to her past to save her children? Or is it already too late...

Destined to become a modern-day classic,The Storm We Madeis a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans ofPachinkoandAll the Light We Cannot See.'Brave, funny and immensely moving. One of the most powerful and confident debuts I've ever read.A storytelling star is born'TRACY CHEVALIER'The Storm We Madeoffers the hidden history that only fiction can reveal: the everyday yearnings of people surviving a brutal occupation, children trying to make sense of the unspeakable, and the search for love.I'll never forget this book'JESSAMINE CHAN, bestselling author ofThe School for Good Mothers____________________Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945.Cecily Alcantara's children are in terrible danger.Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for her own safety.And her son, Abel, has disappeared without a trace.Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.

Rodinná sága a špionážní román v jednom Malajsko 1945. Rodina Cecily Alcantarové je v zoufalé situaci: ztratil se její patnáctiletý syn, nejstarší dcera je den ode dne roztrpčenější a nejmladší dcera se musí neustále skrývat před japonskými vojáky ve sklepě. Cecily si je jistá jen dvěma věcmi: všechno je to její vina a rodina se to nikdy nesmí dozvědět. Příběh vyprávěný z perspektivy čtyř hrdinů — Cecily a jejích tří dětí — pojednává nejen o hrůzách války, ale také o nerovných vztazích mezi kolonizovanými a jejich utiskovateli, o nejednoznačnosti dobra a zla ve chvílích, kdy je v sázce život, ale také o nečekané lásce, zlomeném srdci a neuvěřitelné lidské vytrvalosti a odhodlání.