Adam Kay

  • Cathryn Summerhayes

Cathryn represents Adam Kay, whose bestselling memoir of life as a Junior doctor, This Is Going To Hurt, was the 2018 National Book Awards Book of the Year.

The project began life as a show at the Edinburgh Fringe in response to the Junior doctors’ struggle with Jeremy Hunt, before Adam developed it into a book with Cathryn’s guidance. It has gone on to sell over a million copies and has been translated into 32 languages. Since then, Cathryn has worked on numerous opportunities for Adam, securing him a Sunday Times Colum and a virtually unprecedented comedy drama deal for This Is Going To Hurt with Sister Pictures and the BBC, and has developed two exciting new book projects with him.