If you’re susceptible to vicarious (sympathetic?) hangovers, take care reading Adam Kay’s “A Particularly Nasty Case.”

“All-night Bender” is the first chapter, and that’s exactly what Dr. Eitan Rose goes on, bouncing from the techno thump of a London club to a bathhouse in the company of an American called Chester (“Why were Americans so fond of naming their offspring after miserable English towns?” Eitan wonders.

In the few hours before daylight, Eitan proceeds to drink, do drugs, save a person’s life while naked (both of them) and then fall asleep on a bus-stop bench — only to wake, his head feeling “like it was gestating twins,” at 7 a.m. with no time to go home before he has to be at the hospital.

Eitan is “not a stupid person – he had the exam results to prove it, if you ignored hi

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