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Claire Gleeson

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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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Show Me Where It Hurts

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Show Me Where It Hurts by Claire Gleeson
"Ah my heart.

What a beautiful, tender, heart-wrenching book. Told with such delicacy and nuance.

It might be one of my favourite reads this year.

Tom and Rachel and their two children are driving home late one evening after visiting Tom’s parents whe" Read more of this review »
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“They are not here, her children. Not anymore. She finds them elsewhere sometimes. In the first smiles of her baby son, and the way his hair curls after a bath. They are in the high teenage voices of other children; girls the age her daughter would be now, with their gossamer clothing and their eyes lined in black uncertain rings. Her son, she finds sometimes in the gangs passing home from the primary school at the end of the road. The shove and snigger of them. The new unchildlike smell. And sometimes she sees them in her own face as she stares into the mirror after a night of broken milk-downed sleep, and counts the new lines around her eyes.
And she supposes, they are with Tom too. And she hopes that this is a solace and not a haunting.”
Claire Gleeson, Show Me Where It Hurts

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