ISBN: 1509858644 9781509858644

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)

Page count: 256

<p><b>Now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.<br><br>‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry</b><br><br>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.<br><br>Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's <i>This is Going to Hurt</i> 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.<br><br><b><i>Sunday Times </i>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.<br><br>This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author.</b></p>