Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring award-winning actor Ben Whishaw.

The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive preface by the author.

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: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor 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.

‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.'' - Stephen Fry

Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over a year 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.

The BBC series was Winner of Best Longform Drama at the The Writers'' Guild of Great Britain Awards and Best Drama at the Broadcast Awards. Critics'' Choice Awards nominee for ''Best Limited Series'' and ''Best Actor''.