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Cloistered War : Behind the Convent Walls During the Japanese Occupation The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2007) as one might expect ofA Cloistered War is a coming of age memoir set in Malaya before and after World War II. Maisie Duncan brings us back to the delightful times of curry tiffins, porcelain dolls, Cantonese amahs, and (not so delightful) castor oil Sundays. This happy state of affairs changes dramatically when the author's mother dies and the author remarries. Maisie and her siblings are sent away from the family home to CHIJ insitutions and Christian Brothers' schools,