Sorting Out Billy

Three women. One bad boyfriend. Time to sort it out . . .

Sarah is besotted with the unpredictable Billy. But after another "accident" involving his temper, Sarah's face and a night in 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 issues of their own: Martha is seven months pregnant by one of three possible blokes, and hippy Flower's career as a stand-up comic is more sit-down and weep 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 . . .?

'Sorting Out Billy' is an hilarious novel about the things we do for love and the elaborate combat strategies we devise when it all goes wrong. Always the champion of the outsider, the abused, the bullied, Jo Brand gives as good as she gets in a novel as sharply observed as it is eye-wateringly funny.