Show Me Where It Hurts: The searingly beautiful debut novel about loss and learning how to live again
Apr 2025 · Hachette UK
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The Instant Irish Bestseller
'You will be gripped from page 1'
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'I almost never write reviews but felt compelled to with this moving and captivating book'
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'This book will stay with me for a very long time'
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'Beautiful - just beautiful'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
How do you survive the unsurvivable?
Rachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it's the ordinary family life she always thought she'd have. All of that changes in an instant - when Tom runs the family car off the road, seeking to end his own life, and take his wife and children with him. Rachel is left to pore over the wreckage to try and understand what happened - to find a way to go on living afterwards.
What emerges is a snapshot of what it's like to live alongside someone who is suffering, how you keep yourself afloat when the person you love is drowning, and how you survive irreparable loss.
Impossible to turn away from, Show Me Where It Hurts is a compelling, heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming story of recovery and unexpected hope.
'Outstanding, and has lingered in my head for a very long time'
Prima
'A searingly beautiful novel'
Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things
'You will be gripped from page 1'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I almost never write reviews but felt compelled to with this moving and captivating book'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'This book will stay with me for a very long time'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Beautiful - just beautiful'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
How do you survive the unsurvivable?
Rachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it's the ordinary family life she always thought she'd have. All of that changes in an instant - when Tom runs the family car off the road, seeking to end his own life, and take his wife and children with him. Rachel is left to pore over the wreckage to try and understand what happened - to find a way to go on living afterwards.
What emerges is a snapshot of what it's like to live alongside someone who is suffering, how you keep yourself afloat when the person you love is drowning, and how you survive irreparable loss.
Impossible to turn away from, Show Me Where It Hurts is a compelling, heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming story of recovery and unexpected hope.
'Outstanding, and has lingered in my head for a very long time'
Prima
'A searingly beautiful novel'
Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things
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About the author
Claire Gleeson is from Dublin, where she lives with her young family and works as a GP. Her short stories have been short- and long-listed for numerous prizes. In 2021 she was awarded a Words Ireland literary mentorship while she worked on the first draft of Show Me Where It Hurts, which went on to be a runner-up at the Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair 2023.
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