Beginner’s pluck: Part-time GP Claire Gleeson

Hearing stories of familicide, Claire wondered what it would be like to survive and carry on living

Claire Gleeson: 'I always considered that writing was something I would do alongside something else.' Picture: Steve Langan

Medicine has interested Claire since she visited a friend in hospital at weekends, aged 11 or 12. But reading has been the greatest joy in her life.

“I was a bookish child who wanted to do little else,” she says, “but I
always considered that writing was something I would do alongside something else.”