--- product_id: 61726892 title: "This is Going to Hurt: The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" price: "256.89 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/61726892-this-is-going-to-hurt-the-bestselling-secret-diaries-junior store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Adapted into a major BBC comedy-drama Winner of 4 National Book Awards Multi-million copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt: The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor **Price:** 256.89 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Laugh, cry, and marvel at the untold truths of NHS life – the diary everyone’s talking about! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** This is Going to Hurt: The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - **How much does it cost?** 256.89 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/61726892-this-is-going-to-hurt-the-bestselling-secret-diaries-junior) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Raw NHS Reality:** Get an unfiltered, hilarious, and heartbreaking glimpse behind hospital doors. - • **Audiobook Experience:** Feel the emotion with Adam Kay’s own voice bringing stories vividly to life. - • **Exclusive New Edition:** Includes fresh diary entries and a heartfelt afterword by Adam Kay. - • **Award-Winning Authenticity:** Dive into a diary that clinched Book of the Year and 3 more top honors. - • **Unmatched Bestseller Status:** Join over millions who’ve experienced this #1 Sunday Times sensation. ## Overview This is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s brutally honest and darkly comedic diary chronicling his life as a junior doctor on the NHS frontline. A multi-million copy bestseller and winner of four National Book Awards, it offers a rare, no-holds-barred look at the highs and lows of medical life, now also a hit BBC comedy-drama. This edition features new diary entries and an afterword, making it a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the human side of healthcare. ## Description The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw. ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry 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 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. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months 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. This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author. ‘Incredibly funny – so funny, in fact, that it gave me a hernia from laughing’ – Joe Lycett Review: A Slice of NHS Life! - Genuinely compelling read, as a woman that has given birth 5 times it's fascinating, heartbreaking, funny and makes me even more proud of the NHS and awe-struck by the staff. Review: Insightful, hilarious, horrifying and emotional - This book has just taken the spot of my favourite book to have ever read. I listened to the audiobook but ended up buying the kindle version as well to be able to screenshot the best moments to share and encourage friends and family to read it. I have never been inclined to do that before. This book took me between the most extreme points of the emotion scale. So many laugh out loud, literally giggling alone in my room, hilarious moments. Still more that were immediately followed by slight guilt that I was laughing so hard about something ultimately pretty horrifying. It is hard to believe that this is not fiction but the experiences of a junior doctor in our NHS. But vital to keep remembering it and incredibly sobering to realise, and takes you from laughing to grimacing or even tears on occasion. I would highly recommend listening to this book as an audiobook. It felt like a privilege to be listening to Adam Kay revealing his own memories in his own voice with his own inflections and tone and, at the end particularly but no spoilers here, emotion. The voice is able to portray emotion and help you visualise the scene better than words on the paper alone ever can when it’s the very person who wrote the words reading them out to you. I think it should be imperative for everyone to read this book. To truly appreciate what doctors go through and to further appreciate the NHS. It feels very timely to be writing this review the day after the election that re-elected Boris Johnson and the Conservative party. I hope that this book continues to raise awareness of and gratitude for the NHS and all who work in it and that all efforts will be made to sustain it and support it further. ## Features - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 2,815 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 2 in General Medical Issues Guides 2 in Medical Biographies 3 in Teaching & Learning Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 108,791 Reviews | ## Images ![This is Going to Hurt: The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81+DF+-yMqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Slice of NHS Life! *by E***M on 20 January 2026* Genuinely compelling read, as a woman that has given birth 5 times it's fascinating, heartbreaking, funny and makes me even more proud of the NHS and awe-struck by the staff. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Insightful, hilarious, horrifying and emotional *by B***Y on 13 December 2019* This book has just taken the spot of my favourite book to have ever read. I listened to the audiobook but ended up buying the kindle version as well to be able to screenshot the best moments to share and encourage friends and family to read it. I have never been inclined to do that before. This book took me between the most extreme points of the emotion scale. So many laugh out loud, literally giggling alone in my room, hilarious moments. Still more that were immediately followed by slight guilt that I was laughing so hard about something ultimately pretty horrifying. It is hard to believe that this is not fiction but the experiences of a junior doctor in our NHS. But vital to keep remembering it and incredibly sobering to realise, and takes you from laughing to grimacing or even tears on occasion. I would highly recommend listening to this book as an audiobook. It felt like a privilege to be listening to Adam Kay revealing his own memories in his own voice with his own inflections and tone and, at the end particularly but no spoilers here, emotion. The voice is able to portray emotion and help you visualise the scene better than words on the paper alone ever can when it’s the very person who wrote the words reading them out to you. I think it should be imperative for everyone to read this book. To truly appreciate what doctors go through and to further appreciate the NHS. It feels very timely to be writing this review the day after the election that re-elected Boris Johnson and the Conservative party. I hope that this book continues to raise awareness of and gratitude for the NHS and all who work in it and that all efforts will be made to sustain it and support it further. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hilarious and heartbreaking *by A***R on 21 May 2026* I could not put this down! A brilliant read with lighthearted humor. Pulled on my heartstrings and has made me want to hug every NHS worker! ## Frequently Bought Together - This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery - When Breath Becomes Air --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/61726892-this-is-going-to-hurt-the-bestselling-secret-diaries-junior](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/61726892-this-is-going-to-hurt-the-bestselling-secret-diaries-junior) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-21*