Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, Edited by Adam Kay

Hardback Published on: 09/07/2020
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Dear NHS
A beautiful collection of entertaining reminders of how special the NHS is. Like Kay's books, the stories are by turns funny, sad, powerful, shocking and i... READ MORE
Catriona at Waterstones Online

Synopsis

All author and publisher profits from this book will go to NHS Charities Together to fund vital research and projects, and The Lullaby Trust which supports parents bereaved of babies and young children.

Great writers, artists, entertainers and thinkers talk about their experiences of the NHS and explore what it means to them in this unique collection curated and edited by Adam Kay, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller This Is Going to Hurt. With pieces by Emilia Clarke, Peter Kay, Sir Paul McCartney, Stephen Fry, Dawn French, Sir Trevor McDonald, Graham Norton, Sir Michael Palin, Naomie Harris, Ricky Gervais, Sir David Jason, Dame Emma Thompson, Joanna Lumley and many many more, Dear NHS is a thank you and a celebration of our health service and all who work within it.

The NHS is our single greatest achievement as a country. No matter who you are, no matter what your health needs are, and no matter how much money you have, the NHS is there for you. In Dear NHS, 100 inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them, and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now.

They are all heroes, and this book is our way of saying thank you.

The publisher will be donating a minimum of £3.00 to NHS Charities Together and £0.15 to The Lullaby Trust, from the sale of each book.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9781398701182
  • Number of pages: 416
  • Dimensions: 222 x 140 x 40 mm
  • Weight: 523g
  • Languages: English

Customer Reviews

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Dear NHS
Brilliant, all profits go to charities
A collection of beautiful, funny, sometimes sad, entirely heartfelt, personal stories of 109 famous people's experiences of the NHS. The most common theme ... READ MORE
Michelle LS
Dear NHS
He’s Done It Again
Firstly thank you to Adam for having the idea of this book, then contacting so many well known people to write a piece about what the NHS means to them. I ... READ MORE
Karen Ogg
Dear NHS
Beautiful heartwarming book.
With all that we've been through with the pandemic, it has made our NHS even more precious and the threat of losing it to privatisation fills me with terro... READ MORE
Ruth Mawdsley
Dear NHS
Dear NHS
‘Dear’ within the title says it all, and all the writings will make you laugh and cry. Which again is the ‘NHS’, they do their best with what they have, in... READ MORE
Elizabeth Dolan
Dear NHS
Really excellent
As the title implies this is a short story collection from a wide variety of the ‘well known’ of their experiences with the NHS. From Ed Sheeran to Louis T... READ MORE
Celia Short
Dear NHS
Wonderful NHS!
Fantastic to receive and read this book, gave you ‘another view’ of many very famous celebrities! Well done to everyone who contributed and of course Adam ... READ MORE
Maureen Ann Addicott
Dear NHS
The NHS
As a retired nurse I was humbled by the comments made by the contributors so well put together in this book. The balance of each chapter was very good and ... READ MORE
Theresa Bryson
Dear NHS
Wonderful!
An excellent idea. Wonderful range of memories/stories
Laura  Grace
Dear NHS
Heartwarming stories of the NHS
Stories from people of note about their personal experiences of the NHS. Funny and sad but all positive experiences of how the NHS has affected their lives... READ MORE
Ivan C
Dear NHS
great read
way to make us Americans want to move to the UK even more....
Jonathan Halperin
Dear NHS
The service that is always there for us.
Great tributes to the NHS from the famous and the 'not so'. It just shows that regardless of who we are, rich or poor we all owe a debt of gratitude to all... READ MORE
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