'An extraordinary achievement . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller
author of The Paper Palace 'A monumental epic . . . I was spellbound' Nathan Harris author of
The Sweetness of Water 'Ah Boon's story will stay with me for a long time' Lara Prescott
author of The Secrets We Kept 'Alive to the beauty and mystery of the natural world as well as
the human heart' Jessamine Chan author of The School for Good Mothers They would look back and
ask themselves what was the moment that changed everything? Could she blame him? Could he
blame her? Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century
coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. As he grows up alongside Siok Mei the
spirited girl he has fallen in love with he finds himself caught in the tragic sweep of
Singapore's history. When the Japanese army invades the resistance rises and their small
nation hurtles towards rebirth the two friends must decide who they want to become - and what
they are willing to give up. A powerful coming-of-age of both a young boy and a country The
Great Reclamation asks what might happen when the love between two children complicates the
fate of an entire community and country literally shifting the land beneath people's feet.
