The medic and author of the mega-selling This is Going to Hurt reflects on what happened after he left the NHS frontline in this characteristically sardonic and laugh-out-loud follow-up destined to become a modern classic.
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. It has been read by millions, translated into 37 languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series. But that was only part of the story.
Now, Adam Kay returns and will once again have you in stitches in his painfully funny and startlingly powerful follow-up, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran out of Patients. In his most honest and incisive book yet, he reflects on what's happened since hanging up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably bound up with medicine. Battered and bruised from his time on the NHS frontline, Kay looks back, moves forwards and opens up some old wounds.
Hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and humbling, Undoctored is the astonishing portrait of a life by one of Britain's best-loved storytellers.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781398700376
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 500 g
Dimensions: 236 x 156 x 30 mm
Brilliant - even better than This is Going to Hurt - Jacqueline Wilson
Very funny, very moving - Adam Kay has done it again, the talented c***. PS Sorry for swearing in this quote - Charlie Brooker
Adam Kay is at the top of his game here. Even his footnotes are funnier than most comedians' best gags. But there is darkness here, too, and he handles it so well I had to lay the book aside until my heart was ready for the rest. - Ian Rankin
Every bit as funny as the first one, every bit as powerful, surprising and unflinching - David Whitehouse
I don't think anyone has made me laugh so much about the human body as Adam Kay, while simultaneously bestowing the gift of impotent rage at the state of the NHS - Reverend Richard Coles
Spectacularly brilliant - Cathy Rentzenbrink
A gaspingly honest, hilarious and heartbreaking book from one of Britain's funniest writers - Grace Dent
The anecdotes are hilarious, the personal life fascinating, the insights into our health service compelling. - Daily Mail
Extraordinary... super-readable, funny and disturbing. - Observer
Equally frank and funny as its predecessor. - I-News
Hilarious... such is (Adam Kay's) craft and candour that you find yourself simultaneously guffawing and welling up. - Mail on Sunday
A funny, truthful and fascinating memoir. - Stylist
Richly comic. Kay's writing is a constant pleasure. - Daily Express
Piercingly funny... breathtakingly sad. - Tanya Gold, Daily Telegraph
Fantastic. Everything you could want in a book. - Liz Jones's Diary Podcast
The reason Adam Kay sells millions of books is not because he used to be a doctor, it's because he writes so well. Undoctored is another triumph; funny and moving and thoughtful. - Dr Phil Hammond
Thank you, Adam Kay [...] for your courage, candour, wit (and filth, of course) in your brilliant new memoir. Undoctored really is fantastic. - Rachel Clarke, author of Dear Life
Extraordinary... combining laugh-out-loud material with serious questions - The Sunday Times
Complex, astounding, heart-wrenching. Kay's Undoctored is a deeply personal insight into his complicated relationship with the medical field. Written with his signature wit and wry humour, you will find yourself... More
Having absolutely loved This is Going To Hurt I had the signed copy of Undoctored pre-ordered so I had the pleasure of reading it on publication day.
Everything that made This is Going To Hurt the success it is will...
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A hugely hilarious yet utterly heartbreaking follow up to ‘This is Going to Hurt’. I loved learning more about Kay’s time in the NHS but also beyond and what came after. It was incredibly well written and the humour... More
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