This is the first book I ever read by Colgan and it's one that I (obviously as it's the first time I have recorded it here) read through every time I need to fantasise about how much better my life could have/should have/would have been had I just done a few things differently.

I can't help but wonder if I would have changed things and how I would have changed things NOW if I were offered the same opportunities as Flora and I guess, in a way, that's what Do you Remember the First Time is all about. Would you sleep with that cute boy next door? Would you change your options to give yourself a better career opportunity in the future? Would you do everything you could in order to save a relationship (be it friend/parent/relative) that seemed as though it were a lost cause?

I think that it is this which has me coming back time and again to re-read this book; it doesn't answer the questions for me - because everyone has a different life and different experiences, BUT it does show you that not everything ends up smooth and rosy just because you are offered a second chance; mistakes are still made.