Stamford Hospital, the debut novel by Thammika Songkaeo, published by Penguin Random House (Southeast Asia) in 2025, is a literary manifestation of this painful truism. As for the question about a possible connection between Singapore and a hospital, the writing was not intended that way. Stamford Hospital. When I wrote Stamford Hospital, she was about three, an especially demanding age and a very tiring period for me. You spoke openly that a manuscript of Stamford Hospital was rejected over a hundred times by publishers.

Source: Bangkok Post January 16, 2026 23:58 UTC