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 RossPainfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable. – Stephen FrySo clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription * The 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 BrandAs hilarious as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious) – Charlie BrookerBlisteringly 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 FrenchHorrifyingly hilarious and hilariously horrifying – Danny WallaceA ferociously funny book – Mark WatsonSuperb – Pam AyresAs 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 LycettBy turns witty, gruesome, alarming, and touching. Always illuminating and searingly honest – Jonathan DimblebyBrilliant – Mark Haddon

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. He lives in London.