While these tonal shifts could have ended up “a bit ‘Alton Towers’” – to borrow a phrase from the show, where Kay criticises a medical student for accidentally crashing a gurney into the hospital walls – Whishaw is “such an engaging performer that the whole thing feels effortlessly authentic”, said Katie Rosseinsky in the Evening Standard. But while it can be “a rather intense watch”, moments where you’re holding back tears are accompanied by others “where your sides physically hurt from laughing”.

The show “doesn’t hold back” from the “gruesome reality” of medical procedures like caesarean sections, so the more “squeamish” among us may want to have “a cushion ready to cover your face with”. “If there was ever to be an advert for why both pillars of British society need to be fiercely protected from budget cuts and defunding efforts, it would be this seven-part series,” said Morris. “Of course, a close second would be the BBC”, she says, which has turned the hit book into must-watch television. Kay’s memoir “provided brutally honest insight into what is arguably the best-loved institution in the UK”, said Lauren Morris in Radio Times. It lives up to expectations and I suggest psychological thriller fans add it to the to be read list right away. Here at Crime Fiction Lover we named this book as one of our most wanted of 2022. New TV shows in 2022: dramas, thrillers, true crime and documentaries Although it isn’t quite as strong as her debut the scattered narrative sees to that This Might Hurt is a fine second novel.

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