I wanted to read this book because I love Adam Kay’s style of writing and how brutal he can be. I was wondering how this book was going to go with it being that it was Adam’s journey after leaving the NHS. I loved Adam and just wanted to give him a hug (not like his stalker)  

Adam has returned to writing and this time will have many stories that will have you in stitches. This book reflects on what’s happened since hanging up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably bound up with medicine. Battered and bruised from his time on the NHS frontline, Adam looks back, moves forward and opens some old wounds. All the flashback stories have his patients name as characters from the MCU which makes it 10x funnier.  

With this book, Adam jokes about his journey with writing his first book and the issues of trying to find the happy spot between being an author and a retired doctor. I wanted to hug Adam so much with the issues he spoke about – his stalker, his sexual assault, his talk with his partner about weddings and children. He talked so honestly about these things that it just seemed normal. When his stalker wasn’t normal and him casually dropping the fact that he had PTSD about the fact that he has been sexually assaulted. However, even though he was talking about this dark subject, he was using British and witty humour which I enjoyed but still wanted to hug Adam.  

Just like all of Adam’s previous work, I wanted this book to be longer. I still wanted to hug Adam and James. I cannot wait to read whatever Adam writes next, right now I would read his shopping list or his to-do list.