STAMFORD HOSPITAL

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