Show Me Where It Hurts

The searingly beautiful debut novel about loss and learning how to live again

by Claire Gleeson

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Pub Date 10 Apr 2025 | Archive Date 10 Apr 2025

Hodder & Stoughton | Sceptre

Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction

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'This book will stay with me for a very long time'
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'Heartbreaking'
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'It took my breath away'
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'You will be gripped from page 1'
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The Instant Irish Bestseller

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.

Suddenly Rachel is left poring over the wreckage to try and understand what happened - to find a way to go on living afterwards.

'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

Winner of The Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2025