Sorting Out Billy
By (Author) Jo Brand
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
11th February 2005
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
384
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 28mm
260g
Billy is a lad. He's a laugh, he's loud, he behaves badly and Sarah is besotted with him. But after another 'accident' involving Billy's temper, Sarah's face and a night in the A&E, Sarah's friends Martha and Flower decide that it's time to take action. What should they do Reason with him Send him to anger management classes Hire a hit man Martha and Flower have problems of their own: Martha is seven months pregnant by one of three possible blokes (she did this mainly to wind up her sanctimonious vicar father); and hippie Flower's career as a stand-up comic is more sit-down after some nasty encounters with south London's finest hecklers. Will Martha survive single-motherhood on a council estate in need of a peace-keeping force Will Flower find the perfect put-down And will they sort out Billy before he gets to them first... Jo Brand tells it like it is in her darkly comic and sharply observed debut novel.
Jo Brand is a stand-up comic with many TV and radio shows to her name. She is married with two children and lives in South London.