![]() ![]() This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author. 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. The result is an extremely informative page-turner that comes highly recommended. At different points, the book is both humorous and heartbreaking. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry This Is Going To Hurt is a collection of diary entries written by Adam Kay, a former junior doctor who specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology. BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS ![]()
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Not just saying that! LOL!), but Kimba’s best friend and business partner is Lennix, the heroine of the duet. Yes! We first meet Kimba, Queen Move’s heroine, in The Kingmaker, book 1 of the All the King’s Men duet. What do you love about this setting and world you’ve built? QUEEN MOVE is loosely related to the All the King’s Men Duet. Negotiating their HEA is complex and kinda messy, but I hope, rewarding. When they meet again years later, they’re both adults with very complicated lives. Their parents are best friends, and Kimba and Ezra are separated just as they’re entering high school. The hero and heroine know each other literally from the time they’re babies. LOL! My new book Queen Move is a reunion romance. I write contemporary romance that goes straight for your heart, sometimes with a sucker punch. Thank you for having me! I’m so glad to be here. Please tell us about yourself and your new book, QUEEN MOVE. ![]() Welcome to Fresh Fiction, Kennedy! 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