This is Going to Hurt

BOOK OF THE YEAR
Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards

'If you read one book this year, make it this one' Daily Express

97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.

'So funny and important it should be given out on prescription'
Guardian

'Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad'
Jonathan Ross

'At once hilarious and shocking, moving and irreverent, This is Going to Hurt is a book that demands to be read'
Maggie O'Farrell

INCLUDES BONUS DIARY ENTRIES AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

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

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and author of the multi-million-copy bestseller
This is Going to Hurt and the festive diaries
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas. He previously worked as a junior doctor, which is hopefully clear by now. He lives in Oxfordshire.