Claire Gleeson
@cmgleeson.bsky.social
GP, reader, writer. Debut novel SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS out now from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Rep’d by @juliasreading.bsky.social
www.clairegleeson.com
www.clairegleeson.com
There are still a few days left to vote in the An Post @irishbookawards.bsky.social. Show Me Where It Hurts is shortlisted in the Newcomer of the Year category - if you’ve enjoyed it, I’d really appreciate your vote ❤️
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There are still a few days left to vote in the An Post @irishbookawards.bsky.social. Show Me Where It Hurts is shortlisted in the Newcomer of the Year category - if you’ve enjoyed it, I’d really appreciate your vote ❤️
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
As part of the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social, June O’Sullivan and I will be chatting with Sophie Grenham about our debut novels, writing and resilience, at IMMA on Sunday Nov 9th. Would love to see you there! (Very reasonably priced) tickets can be booked here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/explor...
Exploring Resilience - Dublin Book Festival
How do we go on when the worst has happened? Claire Gleeson’s Show Me Where It Hurts (Hodder and Stoughton) and June O’Sullivan’s The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife (Poolbeg) are two deeply affecting debuts...
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September 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
As part of the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social, June O’Sullivan and I will be chatting with Sophie Grenham about our debut novels, writing and resilience, at IMMA on Sunday Nov 9th. Would love to see you there! (Very reasonably priced) tickets can be booked here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/explor...
Show Me Where It Hurts is a September Kindle Deal, an absolute steal at 86p… www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVLN7GW...
September 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Show Me Where It Hurts is a September Kindle Deal, an absolute steal at 86p… www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVLN7GW...
I’m thrilled to have this short story published today by @stingingfly.bsky.social, as part of their online fiction series. Read it at stingingfly.org/2025/06/05/lea…
June 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’m thrilled to have this short story published today by @stingingfly.bsky.social, as part of their online fiction series. Read it at stingingfly.org/2025/06/05/lea…
I so enjoyed chatting with Chloe about Show Me Where It Hurts, dealing with rejection, and the crucial role of Excel spreadsheets in my writing process…
Today I’m talking to Claire Gleeson about her novel Show Me Where It Hurts, writing empathetically about familicide and grief, and how to fit writing around a busy life
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May 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I so enjoyed chatting with Chloe about Show Me Where It Hurts, dealing with rejection, and the crucial role of Excel spreadsheets in my writing process…
Delighted to be able to share the cover design (and brand new title!) for the Italian translation of Show Me Where It Hurts, which will hit bookshops on June 10th. Grazie Corbaccio per aver pubblicato il mio libro in modo così splendido ❤️
May 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Delighted to be able to share the cover design (and brand new title!) for the Italian translation of Show Me Where It Hurts, which will hit bookshops on June 10th. Grazie Corbaccio per aver pubblicato il mio libro in modo così splendido ❤️
Show Me Where It Hurts has been out in the world for a month, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the warm response it’s getting. If you have enjoyed the book, please consider posting a review online - this really helps it to find new readers. I appreciate each and every one of them ❤️
May 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Show Me Where It Hurts has been out in the world for a month, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the warm response it’s getting. If you have enjoyed the book, please consider posting a review online - this really helps it to find new readers. I appreciate each and every one of them ❤️
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I approached this book by @cmgleeson.bsky.social with trepidation because of the subject matter. It blew me away. She explores a situation that most of us would never want to countenance with profound empathy, curiosity, honesty and a touch of dark humour. Truly brilliant.
April 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Thanks so much for this review, Gail!
📚💙 Some amazing books reviewed this month, including astonishing debut novel Show Me Where It Hurts by Claire Gleeson.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thanks so much for this review, Gail!
Reposted by Claire Gleeson
#BookReview
#ShowMeWhereItHurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social
A breathtaking debut
An achingly beautiful story written with enormous compassion and empathy.
Pub w/ @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/show-me-wher...
#booksky #books #bookrecommendation
#ShowMeWhereItHurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social
A breathtaking debut
An achingly beautiful story written with enormous compassion and empathy.
Pub w/ @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/show-me-wher...
#booksky #books #bookrecommendation
April 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#BookReview
#ShowMeWhereItHurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social
A breathtaking debut
An achingly beautiful story written with enormous compassion and empathy.
Pub w/ @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/show-me-wher...
#booksky #books #bookrecommendation
#ShowMeWhereItHurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social
A breathtaking debut
An achingly beautiful story written with enormous compassion and empathy.
Pub w/ @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/show-me-wher...
#booksky #books #bookrecommendation
Sheer delight in book form! Highly recommend the audio version, narrated brilliantly by J. Smith-Cameron and a perfectly-paced 4 hours 23 minutes long.
April 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sheer delight in book form! Highly recommend the audio version, narrated brilliantly by J. Smith-Cameron and a perfectly-paced 4 hours 23 minutes long.
It’s pub day for Show Me Where It Hurts, and I couldn’t be happier to have it out in the world. Thank you to @juliasreading.bsky.social, Ansa Khan Khattak, @elaineegan.bsky.social, @louisecc.bsky.social and everyone who has worked so hard to bring this book to the shelves. I hope you enjoy it ❤️
April 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It’s pub day for Show Me Where It Hurts, and I couldn’t be happier to have it out in the world. Thank you to @juliasreading.bsky.social, Ansa Khan Khattak, @elaineegan.bsky.social, @louisecc.bsky.social and everyone who has worked so hard to bring this book to the shelves. I hope you enjoy it ❤️
It was such a pleasure to sit down with @niamhdonnelly.bsky.social and chat about Show Me Where It Hurts, life as a GP, and the long and winding road to publication.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
GP and author Claire Gleeson: ‘I have dealt with patients who lose complete touch with reality’
Her debut novel, Show Me Where it Hurts, explores the before and after of an ‘out of the blue’ tragedy to devastating effect
www.irishtimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It was such a pleasure to sit down with @niamhdonnelly.bsky.social and chat about Show Me Where It Hurts, life as a GP, and the long and winding road to publication.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
It still feels somewhat surreal, but Show Me Where It Hurts will officially hit Irish bookshops in one week! I’m very proud of this book, and so grateful for all the support from the Irish writing community and beyond. Please look out for it in your local bookshop from
April 3rd ❤️
April 3rd ❤️
March 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It still feels somewhat surreal, but Show Me Where It Hurts will officially hit Irish bookshops in one week! I’m very proud of this book, and so grateful for all the support from the Irish writing community and beyond. Please look out for it in your local bookshop from
April 3rd ❤️
April 3rd ❤️
Just collected a very exciting parcel from the post office! Finished copies of Show Me Where It Hurts are here, and they’re stunning. Thank you so much to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for wrapping up my words in such a beautiful way.
Publishing April 3rd Ireland/April 10th UK.
Publishing April 3rd Ireland/April 10th UK.
March 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Just collected a very exciting parcel from the post office! Finished copies of Show Me Where It Hurts are here, and they’re stunning. Thank you so much to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for wrapping up my words in such a beautiful way.
Publishing April 3rd Ireland/April 10th UK.
Publishing April 3rd Ireland/April 10th UK.
Reposted by Claire Gleeson
My March book picks are out now!
Check them out, add to your shelves: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
There's something for everyone this month!
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Check them out, add to your shelves: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
There's something for everyone this month!
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March 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
My March book picks are out now!
Check them out, add to your shelves: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
There's something for everyone this month!
readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
@cmgleeson.bsky.social @louisecc.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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Check them out, add to your shelves: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
There's something for everyone this month!
readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
@cmgleeson.bsky.social @louisecc.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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Book lovers! Waterstones.com has a fantastic pre-order promotion this weekend (Sat-Mon), with 25% off a range of upcoming books (including mine!). A pre-order is like a little gift for FutureYou (and they make a huge difference to authors). Use code PREORDER25 #WPreorder
February 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Book lovers! Waterstones.com has a fantastic pre-order promotion this weekend (Sat-Mon), with 25% off a range of upcoming books (including mine!). A pre-order is like a little gift for FutureYou (and they make a huge difference to authors). Use code PREORDER25 #WPreorder
Taut, pacy, supremely satisfying. One for the weekend, because it’s VERY hard to stop reading… #Nightwatching
February 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Taut, pacy, supremely satisfying. One for the weekend, because it’s VERY hard to stop reading… #Nightwatching
Reposted by Claire Gleeson
Finished this in a day. Such a magnificent debut! Preorder a must.
Show Me Where It Hurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social , out in April via @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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Show Me Where It Hurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social , out in April via @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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February 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Finished this in a day. Such a magnificent debut! Preorder a must.
Show Me Where It Hurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social , out in April via @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
@louisecc.bsky.social
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Show Me Where It Hurts by @cmgleeson.bsky.social , out in April via @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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Thank you @thetimes.com and @dubraybooks.bsky.social for the mention. Show Me Where It Hurts is in very good company here!
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
January 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thank you @thetimes.com and @dubraybooks.bsky.social for the mention. Show Me Where It Hurts is in very good company here!
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
I’m so grateful for this incredibly thoughtful and warm response to Show Me Where It Hurts, from the supremely talented Florence Knapp.
Florence’s own debut, The Names, is out in May, and is as beautiful as you would expect from her writing here.
substack.com/@florencekna...
Florence’s own debut, The Names, is out in May, and is as beautiful as you would expect from her writing here.
substack.com/@florencekna...
January 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I’m so grateful for this incredibly thoughtful and warm response to Show Me Where It Hurts, from the supremely talented Florence Knapp.
Florence’s own debut, The Names, is out in May, and is as beautiful as you would expect from her writing here.
substack.com/@florencekna...
Florence’s own debut, The Names, is out in May, and is as beautiful as you would expect from her writing here.
substack.com/@florencekna...
Lovely to see Show Me Where it Hurts included here - and in such good company!
Plenty to look forward to among these debut novels profiled in The Irish Times today.
Would also recommend Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell, which is out next week and The Beneficiaries by Wendy Erskine, which I'm halfway through and loving.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Would also recommend Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell, which is out next week and The Beneficiaries by Wendy Erskine, which I'm halfway through and loving.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Irish debut authors 2025: It’s already shaping up to be a vintage year
There are several new books from debut authors to look forward to this year, including work from Garrett Carr, Róisín Lanigan, Elaine Garvey and more
www.irishtimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Lovely to see Show Me Where it Hurts included here - and in such good company!
Please take the grubbiness of this cover as evidence of the fact that I really couldn’t put it down. Can anyone beat @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social’s ability to build character, in layer upon layer of tiny details? Every one felt entirely real to me.
This will be one of *the* books of 2025.
This will be one of *the* books of 2025.
January 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Please take the grubbiness of this cover as evidence of the fact that I really couldn’t put it down. Can anyone beat @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social’s ability to build character, in layer upon layer of tiny details? Every one felt entirely real to me.
This will be one of *the* books of 2025.
This will be one of *the* books of 2025.
Thank you @liadanhynes.bsky.social and Madeleine Keane for the gorgeous write-up in the Sunday Indo today ❤️
m.independent.ie/entertainmen...
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From blended families to first love, murder mystery to memoir, the ten authors set to break through next year
When you write a book, there will be many people who tell you that they too have a book in them – they just haven’t written it yet because (insert reason here).
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December 29, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Thank you @liadanhynes.bsky.social and Madeleine Keane for the gorgeous write-up in the Sunday Indo today ❤️
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Well this is just great @cmgleeson.bsky.social ❤
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Massive well done Claire. 💪
Looking forward to it!
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Massive well done Claire. 💪
Looking forward to it!
December 29, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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