Stamford Hospital
Author: Songkaeo, Thammika
ISBN: 9789815233056
Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback / softback
A statement to the profound loneliness available to only those who commit to love
A woman. A hospital room. A marriage coming undone.
In Singapore, an ambitious, emotionally depleted expatriate mother checks her barely ill daughter into an upscale hospital-not out of medical necessity, but as a quiet, desperate act of self-preservation. For two nights, in the stillness of white sheets and fluorescent light, she finally breathes.
Her marriage is stable but sexless. Her career, stalled. Motherhood has become a performance she can no longer sustain-especially when she feels little love as a wife to a man untouched by desire.
In this raw, daring autofictive debut, Thammika Songkaeo explores what happens when a woman on the brink dares to confront the demons in her mind.
Set in Singapore but emotionally borderless, Stamford Hospital is a piercing portrait of burnout, resentment, and the silent rebellions that so often go unnoticed. This is a novel for anyone who has ever felt imprisoned by loneliness inside the very family they built.
'Dissecting motherhood, marriage, and the cost of selfhood with razor-sharp precision.' - Elle Singapore
ISBN: 9789815233056
Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback / softback
A statement to the profound loneliness available to only those who commit to love
A woman. A hospital room. A marriage coming undone.
In Singapore, an ambitious, emotionally depleted expatriate mother checks her barely ill daughter into an upscale hospital-not out of medical necessity, but as a quiet, desperate act of self-preservation. For two nights, in the stillness of white sheets and fluorescent light, she finally breathes.
Her marriage is stable but sexless. Her career, stalled. Motherhood has become a performance she can no longer sustain-especially when she feels little love as a wife to a man untouched by desire.
In this raw, daring autofictive debut, Thammika Songkaeo explores what happens when a woman on the brink dares to confront the demons in her mind.
Set in Singapore but emotionally borderless, Stamford Hospital is a piercing portrait of burnout, resentment, and the silent rebellions that so often go unnoticed. This is a novel for anyone who has ever felt imprisoned by loneliness inside the very family they built.
'Dissecting motherhood, marriage, and the cost of selfhood with razor-sharp precision.' - Elle Singapore
