Wendy Simon: I just loved the first book Adam wrote and this was just as good if not better! I could only read 2-3 pages a night because I was laughing out loud and didn't want to get evicted and my sides were aching!
My only complaint is that it wasn't longer! I was so sad when I finished it!! Anyone in the field of medicine MUST get this!
Canada on Oct 03, 2023
Jennifer: He writes about the real world of the NHS and makes rubbish things happening to people hilariously funny , with his amazing sense of humour. Hey! if you can't laugh you will cry.
Definitely worth a read if you have a dark sense of humour.
United Kingdom on Aug 17, 2023
Carol T.: A good book to read anytime but would be a good Christmas stocking filler.
United Kingdom on Aug 02, 2023
Mr A Howie: More laugh out loud reminiscences. Best enjoyed after the original “This is going to hurt”, this is a shorter series of diary entries over Christmas and New Year. It includes material omitted from the first on grounds of good taste. So be warned.
United States on Jan 31, 2021
sal69: Really enjoyed this book which I read in a couple of hours! Couldn’t put it down. Loved the anecdotes and the authors dry wit. I’d really recommend this to anyone looking for a good laugh
United States on Jan 22, 2020
Virginia Pilipovic: Was good but not as excellent as the first book
United States on Jan 17, 2020
Aussie: Some of these situations I could picture easily, working in a hospital myself, but seeing it from the perspective of a junior doctor is not only highly entertaining, but an eye-opener as well! Loved it.
United States on Dec 26, 2019
Kindle Customer: Interesting and at times funny. I really needed a change of pace so this was perfect. I need to go and read the first book now!
United States on Dec 09, 2019
L. J. Roach: If you’ve not read Adam Kay’s first book This is Going to Hurt, may I ask where on Earth you have been?* I have to confess to being nearly two years late to the book myself and had the joy of listening to the audiobook on holiday in June. (*You do not have to read This is Going to Hurt first, but I do generally recommend reading it!).
When I found out Kay had a second book coming out, I was all over it. Despite my pleas to the publisher to let me have a proof, the book gods had decided I was to wait until publication day. So, I did.
It was so worth the wait. As soon as I got in from work I sat myself down with the book and a cup of tea and didn’t stop reading until I’d read every last word. Kay is, without any shadow of a doubt, hilarious. He relays his experiences of his six Christmases as an NHS doctor with so much candour that you feel like he’s talking directly to you.
“Christmas is this pine-scented, tinsel-strewn timeout where, like it or not, everything just… stops. […] And all this is made possible because – thanks to the little baby Jesus – you no longer have to work. Well, most of you don’t. The NHS sadly doesn’t get invited...
United Kingdom on Nov 03, 2019
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| Total Reviews | 384 reviews | 322 reviews | 949 reviews |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3/5 stars of 30,400 ratings | 4.8/5 stars of 3,221 ratings | 4.7/5 stars of 57,966 ratings |
| Item Weight | 6.8 ounces | 1.42 pounds | 15.2 ounces |
| Language | English | English | English |
| Publisher | Generic; Main Market edition | William Morrow; First Edition | Scribner; Reprint edition |
| ISBN-10 | 1529018587 | 0062979973 | 1501135929 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1529018585 | 978-0062979971 | 978-1501135927 |
| Hardcover | 144 pages | 288 pages | |
| Dimensions | 4.65 x 0.87 x 7.32 inches | 6 x 0.97 x 9 inches | 8.9 x 5.98 x 0.98 inches |
United Kingdom on Oct 15, 2023