The spectacularly funny, moving and urgent memoir of a disillusioned council worker
Nick Pettigrew was an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer for over a
decade. From bothersome neighbours with a fondness for crack
cocaine and loud dance music to those being racially abused every
day, Nick's job involved keeping the community happy. Or at least
away from each other's throats.
He has a background in comedy and was a standup comedian for
several years, taking two successful shows to the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe. His comedy writing has been published by Shortlist
and The Telegraph. He was a regular writer for The Daily Mash for
over eight years.
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 Hurt but 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*
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