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| Publisher | Pan MacMillan |
| ISBN 13 | 9781509858637 |
| ISBN 10 | 1509858636 |
| Book Subtitle | Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor |
| Book Description | Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Winner of a record THREE National Book Awards: Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Humour Book of the Year This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author. |
| Editorial Review | As hilarious as it is heartbreaking - and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious) -- Charlie Brooker Finally a true picture of the harrowing, hilarious and ultimately chaotic life of the junior doctor in all its gory glory, dark comedy and unavoidable sadness. A blisteringly funny account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their unflappable exteriors. -- Jo Brand You will laugh, cry and be overwhelmed with gratitude for the medical profession who work so shockingly hard to patch us up and prolong our lives.- Daily Express, Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable. -- Stephen Fry So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription. - Guardian, I'd prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It's laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the lowdown on what it's like to be holding it together while serving on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It's wonderful -- Jonathan Ross |
| About the Author | ADAM KAY IS PERFORMING "THIS IS GOING TO HURT" THROUGHOUT THE UK IN 2019. Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book 'This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor' was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over a million copies. It has been translated into 28 languages and is a number one bestseller internationally. It was Sunday Times humour book of the year, Books Are My Bag book of the year and non-fiction book of the year, Blackwell's debut book of the year and iBooks book of the year as well as book of the year selection in The Times, Guardian, Spectator, Daily Express, Sunday Times, and Mail on Sunday. BBC Two have announced that This is Going to Hurt will be a major new comedy-drama. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Adam Kay |
| Publication Date | 4/19/2018 |
| Number of Pages | 256 |
This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor Paperback English by Adam Kay - 4/19/2018
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