Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas

The number one Sunday Times bestseller - with a new, fantastically festive front cover! Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.This is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.'The perfect surgical stocking-filler' - The TimesTwo different covers of Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas have been printed: one has a special festive design, and the other is our original hardback design. You will either receive the festive design or the original (as shown here) in your order. Specific covers cannot be requested.

“As hilarious as it is heartbreaking - and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious)”

Sunday Times humour book of the year Sunday Times
The perfect surgical stocking filler. Jokes galore. This little book will no doubt cheer up the many readers who find it under their tree The Times
Very, very funny -- Graham Norton
Beyond hilarious . . . A small-but-perfectly formed follow-up to This is Going to Hurt, this Christmas-themed delight continues to capture the dark humour and dedicated work of NHS professionals everywhere Stylist
A funny, poignant snapshot of humanity Radio Times
Will have you crying with laughter Good Housekeeping
Contains Kay’s unique alchemy of medical insight and cynical wit Daily Mirror
Hilarious and heartbreaking Irish Times
The funniest book of 2019 The Mail
Kay's fans will be delighted to discover that it is entirely as revolting, funny and moving as the first i-news
Matchless stories . . . funny, disgusting and moving Guardian

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and author of the million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. He previously worked as a junior doctor, which is hopefully clear by now. He lives in London.

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