Show Me Where it Hurts

Could you survive the unsurvivable? Rachel lives with her husband Tom and her two children: it''s the comfortable family life Rachel always thought she''d have. All of that changes in an instant - when one action by Tom destroys the life they''ve built, leaving Rachel to pour over the wreckage to try and understand what happened, to try and 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. Show Me Where It Hurts is utterly compelling, heartbreaking, and difficult to turn away from.

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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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WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2025

'A searingly beautiful novel'
Jennie Godfrey, author of *The List of Suspicious Things
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**'Brilliantly written'
**Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

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.