Daily Cuts - The Storm We Made

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Vanessa Chan, Malaysian author of ‘The Storm We Made’. Set in Malaya during the Japanese Occupation of the 1940s, ‘The Storm We Made’ is a historical novel about an ordinary housewife who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces—and how her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable of ties. Chan will discuss why and how she came up with the novel’s plot and what research she did to be true to the times.