The Storm We Made cover art

The Storm We Made

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan
Narrated by: Samantha Tan
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

'A storytelling star is born' TRACY CHEVALIER
'A novel that will stay with you' CECILE PIN
'Devastating, beautiful and extraordinary' JESSICA GEORGE
'Magnificent . . . I implore you to read it' CHRIS WHITAKER
'I'll never forget this book' JESSAMINE CHAN

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?

©2024 Vanessa Chan (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Cereus Blooms at Night cover art
The Water Thief cover art
The Girls with No Names cover art
No Heaven for Good Boys cover art
Anna cover art
Lilia cover art
If I Had Two Lives cover art
A House Is a Body cover art
The Dragon Lady cover art
What She Lost cover art
Kalyana cover art
The Child of Ukraine cover art
All the Tomorrows cover art
The Watchmaker of Dachau cover art
Open My Eyes, That I May See Marvellous Things cover art
The Separation cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Never read about this period of history from the Malaysian’s viewpoint. A really good read, or in my case listen. Loved the narration.

Great story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Reader was point in at getting the accents right without being overly cheesy- made me laugh out loud at some parts of-and I’m malaysian!

Very well written. Keeps you wanting to know more - facts were researched and subjects weren’t too stereotypical

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Compelling listening but uncomfortable in places. I learned so much but was an emotional wreck at the end. This story will stay with me for a long time.

So Powerful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Too much repetition of some words such as sour. As my parents had friends in Japanese pow camps it was interesting to see another side. Good on womanhood and toxic relationships

Inherited pain

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
although the book was fairly historically accurate, I found the whole book a depressing slog, Cecily was naive at the start but became selfish & cruel
although awful things happened during this time, I'm sure there must have been moments of joy, but not in this book

very depressing novel

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story was interesting though not the most compelling, but at least the narrator did not spoil it with inauthentic accents. Her Malaysian accent wasn't too bad, unlike a Tash Aw book where the narrator couldn't even pronounce some of the Malay words. I enjoyed hearing about this period in history and regret that I never asked my great aunt more about what she remembers from those days.

Decent accents

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.