Spike Milligan's first book "Puckoon" left nothing untouched, from religion to how tall people were. The story is set against the background of the partition of Ireland in 1920, as the Boundary Commissioners from the two sides struggle over the fixing of the new border. Today, things have changed. The border, both psychological and physical, has lost a few barbs. With his comic genius Milligan satirises many issues of the time in which this book was set. Relationships are a major facet of the novel; they are one of the many things that are easily satirised by Milligan's Comic Genius. The tensi...

• Word Count: 1141
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School