Sorting Out Billy - Hardcover

Brand, Joao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754079554 ISBN 13: 9780754079552

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Review

...what the hell, pass me one of life's cream cakes - that new book by Jo Brand will do (Guardian)

Jo offers a colourful cast of characters in this gritty inner-city story laced with dark humour (Nuneaton Evening Telegraph)

Darkly comic and sharply observed... Full of the clever one-liners you would expect from this author, and desperate situations you hope never to be able to relate to, this is a very funny book and a must for Brand aficionados. (Western Daily Press)

A lively debut (Guardian)

Jo Brand's fiction debut shows her to be a smart stylist with a confident narrative voice... a darker palette than normal is introduced to this accomplished comedy of romantic bad manners (Observer)

So crammed full of brilliant one-liners, you'll be too busy laughing to care whether or not Billy gets sorted out (Scottish Daily Record)

There isn't a dull passage. You could open the book at random, throw a dart and find something droll, well-expressed and hard to forget (Sunday Express)

Brand's debut novel provides more grounds for admiration... Sensitive, readable and very funny, it is an accomplished first book. (Hampstead & Highgate Express)

This no-holds barred, no language spared, and no behaviour too bad tale of our times packs as much punch as any Jo Brand show and is guaranteed to leave you rolling with laughter ... it's got bottle by the gallon (Northern Echo)

Fans of Brand's take-no-prisoners wit should find plenty to enjoy. (Marie Claire)

Book Description

What do you do when your man misbehaves: stay silent, sweet-talk or shoot him?

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754079554
• ISBN 13: 9780754079552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304