Show Me Where it Hurts

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Genre: Ireland / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

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‘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 Said

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 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.

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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 <i>When All Is Said</i>