UNDOCTORED
Adam Kay, Trapeze, $32.99
For the first few chapters, you’re laughing pretty much nonstop as Kay, with the humour that chilled and thrilled us in This Is Going To Hurt, takes us through his decision to quit being a surgeon.
We sober up when we realise that something very bad happened to Kay. A mother and her unborn child died, and he blamed himself. Others tried to reassure him that the situation he was presented with was hopeless. His own father, a retired doctor himself, was callous and unhelpful.
In this second instalment of Kay’s turbulent life journey, he falls in love with James, a TV producer. They buy a flat in London. James departs for Scotland on an assignment and Kay is left to renovate their
