Heartbreaking Irish debut about loss, love and hope
Rachel’s ordinary family life shatters when her husband Tom deliberately drives their car off the road, trying to kill them all. In the raw months that follow, she must navigate grief, guilt and unanswered questions as she slowly learns how to live again after the unsurvivable.
An Post Irish Book Award Winner 2025
Show Me Where It Hurts
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Heartbreaking Irish debut about loss, love and hope
Rachel’s ordinary family life shatters when her husband Tom deliberately drives their car off the road, trying to kill them all. In the raw months that follow, she must navigate grief, guilt and unanswered questions as she slowly learns how to live again after the unsurvivable.
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A 2025 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, AND RTÉ GUIDE
'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 comfortable 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 utterly compelling and heartbreaking. It is a story of recovery and unexpected hope.
- 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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- ISBN
- 9781399734738
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sceptre, (10 April 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 319 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 150 x 20 mm
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