A review by emjay24
Do You Remember The First Time? by Jenny Colgan

4.0

This is a sort of 13 going on 30 book, but in reverse. Flora is 32 and has what people would think of as a good life - a good office job, a nice, safe boyfriend, a best friend... But she's bored. She realizes she never wanted this middley life and wishes that she'd go back to 16 to fix it. The trick is, she turns 16, and her parents get younger, but she's still in present time (2003 I think they said). The only people who recognize her as her are her best friend Tashy (I hate that name), her boyfriend, and her long lost love. Flo has to figure out how to get back to her self, whether she wants to get back to herself, and how to fix her life. For chick lit, this is pretty thoughtful, and also a very quick read. Her boring, supposedly great, life is exactly what I don't want to happen to me, and why I'm leaving Boston and my job. I think I can do it without magic...