I can't remember any first lines from the book I am about to tell you about...only thing I can remember is it is very funny.......don't read it in a public place.
Puckoon by Spike Milligan.....I read it years ago and it had me laughing out loud on the top deck of Blackburn Corporation bus.......I think they were about to bring in the fellers in white coats, until they saw me in the nurses uniform
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