diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# 0.2.3
+
+- Fix escaping of backslashes (#5)
+- Fix a bug with ambiguous types on newer cabal new-repl runs (#4)
+
 # 0.2.{1,2}
 
 Add functions to prettify to `Doc` instead of just supporting `String`,
diff --git a/show-prettyprint.cabal b/show-prettyprint.cabal
--- a/show-prettyprint.cabal
+++ b/show-prettyprint.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                show-prettyprint
-version:             0.2.2
+version:             0.2.3
 synopsis:            Robust prettyprinter for output of auto-generated Show
                      instances
 description:         See README.md
diff --git a/src/Text/Show/Prettyprint/Internal.hs b/src/Text/Show/Prettyprint/Internal.hs
--- a/src/Text/Show/Prettyprint/Internal.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Show/Prettyprint/Internal.hs
@@ -80,21 +80,31 @@
         Right d -> pure (pretty d)
 
 -- |
--- >>> testParse stringLitP "\"Hello world!\""
--- "Hello world!"
+-- >>> testParse stringLitP "\"Hello\\\\ world!\""
+-- "Hello\\ world!"
 stringLitP :: Parser (Doc ann)
 stringLitP = token (p <?> "string literal")
   where
-    p = fmap (dquotes . pretty) (stringLiteral :: Parser String)
+    p = fmap (dquotes . pretty . concatMap escapeBackslashes)
+             (stringLiteral :: Parser String)
 
+escapeBackslashes :: Char -> String
+escapeBackslashes '\\' = "\\\\"
+escapeBackslashes x = [x]
+
 -- |
 -- >>> testParse charLitP "'c'"
 -- 'c'
 charLitP :: Parser (Doc ann)
 charLitP = token (p <?> "char literal")
   where
-    p = fmap (squotes . pretty) Tri.charLiteral
+    p = fmap (squotes . pretty . escapeBackslashes) Tri.charLiteral
 
+-- $
+-- Correct backslash handling
+-- >>> testParse charLitP "'\\\\'"
+-- '\\'
+
 -- | Anything that could be considered an argument to something else.
 --
 -- >>> testParse argP "()"
@@ -148,4 +158,4 @@
         lhs <- token identifierP
         _ <- token (Tri.char '=')
         rhs <- argP
-        pure (lhs <+> pretty "=" <+> rhs)
+        pure (lhs <+> pretty '=' <+> rhs)