This chapter discusses The Flying Fox, Mary McMinnies’s fictional narrative of the Malayan Emergency. It explores how McMinnies combines fact and fiction to produce a critical account of British colonial politics. The chapter further suggests that McMinnies’s interest in the women of colonial Malaya marks her novel as distinct from the male fiction of the period, as she foregrounds women’s perspectives on the transition from colony to post-colony. Employing narrative conventions associated with the middlebrow, her novel also attends to anxieties of post-war readers about social class and cultural taste, which are further complicated in the late colonial space.