Adam Kay is a writer and comedian

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

Stephen Fry

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

Charlie Brooker
 

"Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly sad. It’s wonderful"

Jonathan Ross

"A blisteringly funny account shot through with harrowing detail, many pertinent truths and the humanity we all hope doctors conceal behind their unflappable exteriors"

Jo Brand

"Insightful, very funny, and indecently readable"

Louis Theroux

"It’s a rare book that can make me both cry and laugh. This Is Going to Hurt is that book"

Ian Rankin

"This is a brilliant book"

Russell Howard

"Absolutely adored it. Brilliant"

Jack Whitehall

"Horrifyingly hilarious and hilariously horrifying"

Danny Wallace

"Bloody funny"

Minnie Driver

"At once hilarious and shocking, moving and irreverent, This Is Going to Hurt is a book that demands to be read."

Maggie O’Farrell

"As a hypochondriac I was worried about reading Adam Kay’s book. Luckily it’s incredibly funny – so funny, in fact, that it gave me a hernia from laughing"

Joe Lycett

"Superb. Unusual and funny and sad"

Pam Ayres

"By turns witty, gruesome, alarming, and touching. Always illuminating and searingly honest"

Jonathan Dimbleby

"Brilliant"

Mark Haddon

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

The Times

"A heartening, laugh-out-loud confessional on the indignities and quiet joys of being a junior doctor. Kay’s warts-and-all account will not only bring plenty of laughs but also delivers a moving report from the NHS’s embattled frontline"

Financial Times

"Scalpel-sharp humour and searing insight"

The Sun

"So clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescription."

Guardian

"We know that junior doctors have it rough. But it takes Kay’s account of his 97-hour-week struggle to see just how rough. There are many hilariously gruesome anecdotes in this book. Some are just hilarious."

Sunday Times

"The humour is unflinching in its darkness, yet I did laugh. A lot. Kay is a skilful, muscular writer, his narrative swinging from laugh-out-loud anecdotes to tales of sheer horror."

Independent

"Adam Kay writes with scalpel-sharp wit - a genital-warts-and-all account of what life is really like for junior doctors. Witty, wise and frequently moving, This Is Going To Hurt should be required reading for anyone who wants to be a doctor. And, frankly, anyone who might expect to cross a hospital’s threshold"

Mail on Sunday

"If you read one book this year, make it Adam Kay’s hilarious, horrifying, heartbreaking insight into the life of a junior doctor . . . an eye-opening and brutally funny insight into the appalling pressure upon the NHS. What a terrible loss Adam Kay is to the medical profession. But what a tremendous gain for your bookshelf"

Daily Express

"It is a truly laudable book, hilarious, moving and caustic. Kay’s book is vital and timely. It should be required reading for anyone who ever has any political or financial responsibility for our health services"

Scotsman

"Blisteringly funny, politically enraging and often heartbreaking"

Sunday Express