Chan, Vanessa – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 19 May 2025 09:46:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Chan, Vanessa – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The storm we made https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-storm-we-made/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=45423 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… ?

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