Show Me Where It Hurts: 'A searingly beautiful novel' Jennie Godfrey
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Show Me Where It Hurts: 'A searingly beautiful novel' Jennie Godfrey
By (Author) Claire Gleeson
Hodder & Stoughton
Sceptre
29th July 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 150mm, Height 232mm, Spine 20mm
319g
Description
'This story of a woman's survival after the worst has happened, makes for a searingly beautiful novel.'
Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things'Exceptional . . . simply an exquisite novel'Anne Griffin, author of When All Is SaidHow do you survive the unsurvivableRachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it's the comfortable family life she 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 pore 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.Reviews
With gentle and lulling prose, Show Me Where It Hurts is exceptional in its exploration of the grief and recovery from something unthinkable. This is simply an exquisite novel. -- Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said
Author Bio
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.
