Miss Cassidy #01: The Formidable Miss Cassidy

Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize • Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Literary Work)

In 1890s Singapore, the formidable Miss Leda Cassidy arrives as paid companion to Sarah Jane Bendemeer, whose family suffers under the thrall of Southeast Asia's most terrifying hantu. But there's more to Miss Cassidy than meets the eye, and she's faced down worse in her life than a pontianak.

However, she may have met her match in the indefatigable businessman, Mr Kay Wing Tong, whose large and constantly-growing family clearly requires female supervision—especially of the particular kind Miss Cassidy can provide. Ill omens and strange happenings surround Mr Kay and his colourful family, and Miss Cassidy must find a way to defend the ones she has learned to love.

About the Author

Meihan Boey is the author of The Formidable Miss Cassidy (co-winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize and winner of the 2022 Singapore Book Awards for Best Literary Work), its sequel The Enigmatic Madam Ingram (shortlisted for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize), as well as the sci-fi novella The Messiah Virus (2019). Her speculative fiction short stories have appeared in the anthologies Fish Eats Lion Redux and Fright 1. The Formidable Miss Cassidy was published in the UK by Pushkin Press in August 2024. She is Vice President of the Association of Comic Artists of Singapore.