Anti-Social

the Sunday Times-bestselling diary of an anti-social behaviour officer

Nick Pettigrew author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:23rd Jul '20

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The spectacularly funny, moving and urgent memoir of a disillusioned council worker

Perfect for fans of The Secret Barrister and Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt.
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'Superb. This hysterically funny and moving memoir of an anti-social behaviour officer is a real eye-opener that hits all the right notes' FRANKIE BOYLE

'Anti-Social is brutally honest, exceptionally funny and terribly sad - a scything indictment of broken 21st century Britain. I could not put it down.' THE SECRET BARRISTER

'A fascinating insight into a job that stitches together the cracks in compassion in our communities' RENI EDDO-LODGE, bestselling author of Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race
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Has your life become unbearable because the person living above you has a fondness for crack cocaine, the company of strangers and dance music? Or maybe you're a social worker, mental health nurse, police officer, firefighter, dog warden or vicar and you've been landed with someone who's a pain in the arse. Who are you going to call? That would be me: an anti-social behaviour officer.

Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his community happy, or at least away from each other's throats. That's hard enough at the best of times but when government cuts mean that hospitals, social services and police are all at breaking point, the possibility of complete chaos is never far away.

This is an urgent, timely but, most of all, hysterically funny true story of a life spent working with the people society wants to forget and the problems that nobody else can resolve. This book will make you laugh, cry and boil with rage within a single sentence.
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AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST AND ITV'S LORRAINE

'Brilliant. This deserves to be a huge success - funny, sad and heartbreaking' LORRAINE KELLY

'I absolutely loved it. It reads like a novel, has that page-turning quality everyone looks for in a good book but it delivers the punch that only true life can - funny obviously but with humanity and warmth for people at the edges of society most in need of our understanding and compassion' KIT DE WAAL, author of My Name Is Leon

'Get this book. ... I'm telling you now, you will absolutely...

Superb. This hysterically funny and moving memoir of an anti-social behaviour officer is a real eye-opener that hits all the right notes -- Frankie Boyle
A fascinating insight into a job that stitches together the cracks in compassion in our communities -- Renni Eddo-Lodge
Anti-Social is brutally honest, exceptionally funny and terribly sad - a scything indictment of broken 21st century Britain. I could not put it down. -- The Secret Barrister
I absolutely loved it. It reads like a novel, has that page turning quality everyone looks for in a good book but it delivers the punch that only true life can - funny obviously but with humanity and warmth for people at the edges of society most in need of our understanding and compassion.
A gruesome and darkly comic insight into the life of a ASB Officer.Think Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurtbut with more dead bodies (and not just human ones) and an abundance of cat shit. It's a gloriously cynical read but it's also sympathetic and deeply empathetic. Being an ASB Officer comes across as one of those "rotten but somebody's got to do it jobs" and I was glad that in these cases, that that somebody was the author. -- Kathy Burke

ISBN: 9781529124774

Dimensions: 222mm x 144mm x 144mm

Weight: 498g

384 pages