Malcolm Frazer
ASIN: B00731Z3VK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 306
“Upstairs, from John's room, the insistent creaking of labouring bedsprings continued. It was this that had woken him, or so he supposed. He carried on smoking until the creaks became less frenzied and finally, after one last wistful groan, stopped altogether. He leant across and stubbed out his crumbling cigarette into a plastic cup. There were many things he arguably needed on his birthday but to be woken by John humping upstairs was not one of them. . . Tomorrow it would all be very different. Today was his last day at Birmingham General with Harrington, the Old Fart. Tomorrow would be very different. “So begins Martin Cunningham’s 23rd birthday and his final eventful day as senior medical student at the General Hospital, Birmingham. He is right about one thing: by day’s end nothing would ever be the same again.