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Bodies

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A darkly powerful and blackly funny exposé of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty

Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see: a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion.

But for first day junior doctors, their initiation into this world - the 'Killing Season' - is about to begin.

A whistle-blowing despatch from the frontlines of hospital life, Jed Mercurio's Bodies takes us on a nerve-jangling journey through one junior doctor's loss of innocence, and his desperate, dangerous attempts to right his - and his colleagues'- wrongs.

'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' Guardian

© Jed Mercurio 2002 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Deeply likeable and entertaining – funny, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places – I couldn’t put it down

Guardian

Gritty, realistic and funny

Daily Mail

Reading Bodies is a physical experience. The malignant humour is relentless

Daily Telegraph

Buy it. Borrow it. Read it

Hospital Doctor

A cracking novel

Manchester Evening News
Author Jed Mercurio
Narrator Lee Ingleby
Duration 9 hours and 47 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473595347
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Humorous fiction, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical profession, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues
Availability AU, GB, IE

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