This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw Winner of the 2026 Books Are My Bag 10 Years of Readers Award 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year. This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author. 'Incredibly funny - so funny, in fact, that it gave me a hernia from laughing' - Joe Lycett