This Is Going To Hurt

Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable

A scurrilously funny, poignant and fascinatingly horrific tale of being torn to pieces and spat out by the strangely loveable but graceless monster that is the NHS

I’m not a Doctor (despite what I sometimes say) but 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

Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.

As hilarious as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious).

I howled, yelped and occasionally choked with laughter. This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way.