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Stamford Hospital

by Thammika Songkaeo
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Stamford Hospital
Stamford Hospital

Razor-sharp motherhood unraveling in polished Singapore

This feels like the kind of novel that gets under your skin quietly, then stays there. Tarisa’s mind is the real battleground, and the hospital setting makes her choices feel chillingly intimate rather than dramatic. If you like literary fiction that is psychological, unsettling, and brutally honest about marriage, motherhood, and isolation, this could be a striking read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Stamford Hospital

by Thammika Songkaeo
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ISBN: 9789815233056
Authors: Thammika Songkaeo
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2025-06-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Feminism, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.98
(rated by 62 readers)

Description

Stamford Hospital follows its disturbed protagonist Tarisa over two nights as she navigates motherhood for her child and a strained marriage to an asexual husband who has made Singapore their permanent home. Tarisa uses the hospital as childcare, hospitalizing her young daughter Mia even though Mia is barely ill, and becomes entrenched in her own thoughts, facing demons that whisper the love she receives from her family might not make her life any less devastating. But what is devastation, when everything that leads to it can be rationalized?
 

Razor-sharp motherhood unraveling in polished Singapore

This feels like the kind of novel that gets under your skin quietly, then stays there. Tarisa’s mind is the real battleground, and the hospital setting makes her choices feel chillingly intimate rather than dramatic. If you like literary fiction that is psychological, unsettling, and brutally honest about marriage, motherhood, and isolation, this could be a striking read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.