From the multi-award-winning and multi-million-copy bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, a gift book that alternates between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line.
From the multi-award-winning and multi-million-copy bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, a gift book that alternates between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line.
The number one Sunday Times bestseller. 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 Times
“Very, very funny”
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
-- 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 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.
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