This is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay
2017 Winner
Blackwell's Debut of the Year
2017 Nominee
Blackwell's Book of the Year
2017 Winner
Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2017 Winner
Books are My Bag Readers Choice Award
2018 Nominee
Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
19 April 2018
9781509858637Synopsis
A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.
‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry
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 for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year.
This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author.
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 wonderfulJonathan Ross
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 prescriptionGuardian
