Sorting Out Billy

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.