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Show Me Where It Hurts

'A searingly beautiful novel' Jennie Godfrey
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'A searingly beautiful novel' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things 'Outstanding, and has lingered in my head for a very long time' Prima How do you survive the unsurvivable? Rachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it's the ordinary family... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Show Me Where It Hurts

For reading groups and lovers of emotionally arresting fiction: the story of a woman forced to rebuild her life after in one explosive moment her husband destroys everything they've built together.

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'A searingly beautiful novel'

Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things

'Outstanding, and has lingered in my head for a very long time'

Prima

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399734738

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sceptre

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 319g

Pages: 256

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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