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Stamford Hospital
"Dark, twisted, and impossible to put down..."
Grazia Singapore
"Dissecting motherhood, marriage, and the cost of selfhood with razor-sharp precision..."
Elle Singapore
Stamford Hospital
A woman. A hospital room. 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.
Set in Singapore but emotionally borderless, Stamford Hospital is a piercing portrait of burnout, resentment, and the silent rebellions that so often go unnoticed.
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Thammika Songkaeo
A bit of what's been said
"Dark, twisted, and impossible to put down..."
"Dissecting motherhood, marriage, and the cost of selfhood with razor-sharp precision..."
Elle SG
"... Songkaeo provides a deeply unsettling, yet thought-provoking look at modern womanhood... a raw shot of ambition, marriage, and motherhood, exposing the raw, unspoken realities of women who feel unseen."
"Readers are pushed to consider the weight of choice..."
More (in Thai): Tatler Asia, Mirror
360° Views of the City
Striking Architectural Style
Built-to-Last Quality
Thammika Songkaeo
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"Dark, twisted, and impossible to put down..." Grazia SG
"Dissecting motherhood, marriage, and the cost of selfhood with razor-sharp precision..." - Elle SG
"... Songkaeo provides a deeply unsettling, yet thought-provoking look at modern womanhood... a raw shot of ambition, marriage, and motherhood, exposing the raw, unspoken realities of women who feel unseen." Prestige SG
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Thammika Songkaeo is a writer of Thai origin, whose lived experiences in India, Uganda, Rwanda, five American cities, and Singapore, have informed the making of Stamford Hospital, her debut, autofictive novel following a nomination to the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, which she attended on a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, a fellowship to the Comparative Literature PhD program of the University of Texas at Austin—a program that she finished only at the MA—and a grant from the Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Galleries. She earned Highest Honors for her study of French Literature at Williams College and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts before becoming a Storytelling grantee of the National Geographic Society in 2022 and continuing a transnational gaze on stories of the relationship between womanhood and society. Her writing, including a feature of monologues, has appeared in Ninth Letter and in World Literature Today online, and for the Singapore National Library Board.
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