Description
| Product ID: | 9781509858637 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | This is Going to Hurt |
| Subtitle: | Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor |
| Authors: | Author: Adam Kay |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Medical profession, Medical profession |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope. <p><b>A Major BBC Series 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> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-19 |