This is Going to Hurt
«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 wonderful»
Jonathan Ross
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 Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Picador
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781509858637
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Blackwell's Debut of the Year 2017 UK and Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2017 UK and Books are My Bag Readers Choice Award 2017 UK and Big Book Awards: Biography Award 2018 UK and National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2018 UK and National Book Awards Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018 UK and National Book Awards Zoe Ball Book Club Choice 2018 UK and National Book Awards Book of the Year 2019 UK. Short-listed for Blackwell's Book of the Year 2
Anmeldelser
«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 wonderful»
Jonathan 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 prescription»
Guardian
«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
«As hilarious as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious)»
Charlie Brooker
«Blisteringly funny, politically enraging and often heartbreaking . . . hilarious . . . brimming not just with humour but with humanity . . . This should be a wake-up call to all who value the NHS»
Hannah Beckerman, Sunday Express
«A funny, excoriatingly revealing, beautiful book»
Dawn French
«Horrifyingly hilarious and hilariously horrifying»
Danny Wallace
«A ferociously funny book»
Mark Watson
«Superb»
Pam Ayres
«As a hypochondriac I was worried about reading Adam Kay’s book. Luckily it’s incredibly funny – so funny, in fact, that it gave me a hernia from laughing»
Joe Lycett
«By turns witty, gruesome, alarming, and touching. Always illuminating and searingly honest»
Jonathan Dimbleby
«Brilliant»
Mark Haddon