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This is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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"This is going to hurt"
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Brilliant 1 day read good for a laugh and to understand how hard it is for people studying or working in Healthcare and also heartbreaking patient stories. Love this book

"Hilarious"
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Great book. Very funny and entertaining.

"Funniest book I have read"
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Adam Kay has a perspective on life that is touching and hilarious at the same time.......SO looking forward to the next one

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THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER 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 a new afterword by the author.

Author Biography:

Adam Kay is a writer and script editor for TV and film. During his transition from doctor to writer he established himself as a musical comedian as frontman of Amateur Transplants, achieving great success and over 20 million YouTube hits. He lives in London.
Release date Australia
April 19th, 2018
Author
Pages
256
Interest Age
From 18 years
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Collection
Dimensions
130x197x18
ISBN-13
9781509899470
Current sales rank
Top 1000
All-time sales rank
Top 2000
Product ID
27601980

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