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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas

Festive Diaries from the Creator of This Is Going to Hurt
By Adam Kay
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'Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay offers a humorous and heartfelt glimpse into the life of a junior doctor working through the festive season. It's a candid memoir detailing the highs and lows of the hospital wards over seven Christmases, delivering both laugh-out-loud moments and poignant insights into the medical profession. The author expertly blends wit with empathy, giving readers a genuine understanding of the challenging yet rewarding role of healthcare workers during the holiday period.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate candid and humorous insights into the life of a doctor, especially during the busy festive season. The author, Adam Kay, offers an engaging glimpse into the highs and lows of working in the NHS, filled with both heartwarming and absurd experiences.

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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.

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.

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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

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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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