{"product_id":"anti-social-tpb","title":"Anti-Social TPB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of The Secret Barrister and Adam Kay's \u003ci\u003eThis is Going to Hurt.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e__________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Superb. This hysterically funny and moving memoir of an anti-social behaviour officer is a real eye-opener that hits all the right notes' \u003c\/b\u003eFRANKIE BOYLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Anti-Social is brutally honest, exceptionally funny and terribly sad - a scything indictment of broken 21st century Britain. I could not put it down.'\u003c\/b\u003e THE SECRET BARRISTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA fascinating insight into a job that stitches together the cracks in compassion in our communities'\u003c\/b\u003e RENI EDDO-LODGE, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e__________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHas your life become unbearable because the person living above you has a fondness for crack cocaine, the company of strangers and dance music? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOr 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnti-Social\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e__________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST AND ITV'S \u003ci\u003eLORRAINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant. This deserves to be a huge success - \u003cb\u003efunny, sad and heartbreaking\u003c\/b\u003e' LORRAINE KELLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I absolutely loved it. It \u003cb\u003ereads like a novel,\u003c\/b\u003e has that \u003cb\u003epage-turning\u003c\/b\u003e quality everyone looks for in a good book but it delivers the punch that only true life can - \u003cb\u003efunny\u003c\/b\u003e obviously but with \u003cb\u003ehumanity and warmth\u003c\/b\u003e for people at the edges of society most in need of our understanding and compassion' KIT DE WAAL, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Leon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Get this book. ... I'm telling you now, you will absolutely love this guy, what he has to say and the book that he has written. \u003cb\u003eIn equal parts devastating and dark and incredibly funny\u003c\/b\u003e.' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Laugh-out-loud funny. \u003c\/b\u003eThe delivery is punchy and the humour dark - \u003cb\u003ethink Irvine Welsh minus the Scottish vernacular' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEXPRESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Darkly comic ... \u003cb\u003ethink Adam Kay's \u003ci\u003eThis is Going to Hurt\u003c\/i\u003e but with more dead bodies \u003c\/b\u003e(and not just human ones) and an abundance of cat shit. 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