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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
Festive Diaries from the Creator of This Is Going to Hurt
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See moreFrom the multi-award-winning and multi-million-copy bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, a gift book that alternates between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line.
From the multi-award-winning and multi-million-copy bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, a gift book that alternates between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line.
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The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.
This is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.
'The perfect surgical stocking-filler' The Times
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'Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay is celebrated for its humour and poignancy, with numerous reviews praising its balance of medical insight and wit. Hailed as a perfect stocking filler and a follow-up to This is Going to Hurt, this memoir captures the holiday experiences of NHS professionals with both hilarity and heartfelt moments. Many find it both side-splittingly funny and heartbreakingly moving, confirming its status as a much-loved read.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529038620
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 October 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 96g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and author of the multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt and the festive diaries Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas. He previously worked as a junior doctor, which is hopefully clear by now. He lives in Oxfordshire.
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