Do You Remember the First Time? - Softcover

Colgan, Jenny

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3,068 ratings by Goodreads

9780007331161: Do You Remember the First Time?

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007331169 ISBN 13: 9780007331161

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

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Life doesn’t have a rewind button. Ever wished it did?

Flora’s wish is about to come true, in a magical new novel about the ultimate second chance, from the bestselling author of WORKING WONDERS and AMANDA’S WEDDING.

As her best friend Tashy cuts into her wedding cake, 32-year-old Flora realises she is disillusioned with life. Suddenly, her well-paid job, cosy flat and stable relationship with sensible Olly don't amount to a whole lot. Flora wants to be 16 again. She closes her eyes and wishes. Her wish has come true.

Waking up the next morning is a shock. But now Flora has the chance to right some wrongs. Trading crows feet for pimples, love handles for a torso Britney Spears would kill for and dull dinner parties for house parties where White Lightning and snogging are the order of the day, Flora revels in a life where things are far less complicated and just much more... FUN.

It's not all laughs though. Will what she does change the future? How can she get back to the present and her ordinary life? And does she even want to?

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Review:

‘Funny stuff.’ Heat

'Snappy and wickedly entertaining.' You

‘Full of laughs and lipgloss – brilliant.’ Company

PRAISE FOR JENNY COLGAN:

‘Funny, magical and moving.’ TIME OUT

‘A sharp, witty love story.’ OBSERVER

'Colgan is on top form with her latest outrageous romp' Cosmopolitan

'Jenny Colgan is one of the leaders of the pack... Fast-paced, funny, poignant and well-observed' Daily Mail

'Wonderful, warm and resonant' Hello

'Sharp, well-observed and hilarious' New Statesman

From the Author:

How the book came about? Well, I was lying in the bath one afternoon about two years ago reading Heat magazine (hey, I consider it very important to the creative process) and I thought, this is nuts; I'm reading about Justin Timberlake, who I would have *loved* as a teenager, but I'm nearly thirty. When am I ever going to grow up? And that led me to thinking how much I've changed, and what it would be like to do it all again.

I saw some friends that night and said, 'What do you think it would be like going back to school but knowing everything you know now?' and it sparked so much conversation that I thought I must be on to a good thing.

I think at first you assume it will be great because now you know how to be cool and get served in pubs and you're better at dealing with the opposite sex (well, maybe not the last one), but then you remember how tribal school can be and all the bullying and hassle and chemistry you have to put up with and you think, hmmm, maybe not...

Originally the book was called Sixteen Again; Flora is thirty-two and unhappy with her life, and wakes up one day in her sixteen-year-old body.

I wanted to make Flora sixteen as opposed to thirteen or eleven (like in those Hollywood body-swap movies) for two reasons: firstly, because I needed to get her out the house on her own, and nobody lets thirteen-year-old girls out on their own these days, and secondly, because I wanted her to get a bit of fun and romance in her life without anyone calling the police.

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