A review by questingnotcoasting
Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You by Adam Kay

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

This is a collection of thank you notes to the NHS written by famous writers, actors, musicians, comedians and TV personalities. Most of the contributions are memoir style essays but there are also a few poems and pieces of fiction. Some were funny, some moving and some simply focused on gratitude. I felt like some contributions were considerably weaker than others and there were a few single impersonal paragraphs which didn't seem to add much to the collection, but then that is the nature of anthologies. Some of the writing is really brilliant and my favourites were the more personal, touching stories. The overall message isn't groundbreaking - the NHS is essential and undervalued and in an ideal world it wouldn't require an celebrity anthology to make that point but generally I thought it was well worth the read. 
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