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There were two of us here. But I didn't feel torn at all.
‘Fancy a little bit of hide and seek?' I winked at him.
‘Yes, miss!'
So we hid behind the tree. And he took me in his arms and I didn't object. And then I kissed him, and was kissed, properly. Like a grown-up. Without guidance and without restraint, just with sheer, perfect, fitting-together passion, without need for talking; without even a need to think. To paraphrase the Spice Girls, a band Stanzi didn't even remember: two became one.
Later, for sheer naughtiness, and because it's what teenagers do, we carved our initials on the tree. So they'll still be there
this year, when we go back. For a special occasion of our own. That I'm hoping is going to be just as special as Olly and Tashy's but in a very, very,
very
different way.
I think I'll stick to profiteroles.
Amanda's Wedding
Talking to Addison
Looking for Andrew McCarthy
Working Wonders
‘Funny, magical and moving, this is a rewarding read.'
Time Out
 
‘We laughed a lot.'
Heat
 
‘A delicious comedy. Will melt even the hardest of hearts.'
Red
 
‘Colgan's witty book perfectly captures the frustrations and petty vexations of office life.'
She
 
‘Hugely entertaining and very funny.'
Cosmopolitan
 
‘A funny, clever page-turner.'
Closer
 
‘Fans of
The Office
will love this witty tale.'
Woman's Own
 
‘A quirky tale of love, work and the meaning of life.'
Company
 
‘If you think David Brent causes mayhem in
The Office
wait till you see what town-planner Arthur and his team get up to in Jenny Colgan's comic romp.'
In Style
 
Looking for Andrew McCarthy
:
 
‘Colgan is on top form in this, her latest outrageous romp.'
Cosmopolitan
 
‘Jenny Colgan is one of the leaders of the pack and this, her third novel, will delight her legions of admirers. Fast-paced, funny, poignant and well-observed it reads as a pastiche of the movies she loved … If a time capsule were buried to capture the world at the turn of the 21st century, this would be a candidate for inclusion: her sense of time and place are that authentic.'
Daily Mail
 
‘Looking for Andrew McCarthy
will strike a chord with anyone who did their growing up in the 80s. Wonderful, warm and resonant for anyone who ever wondered what happened to teenage dreams.'
Hello
 
‘That's Life
meets
This Life,
with
Once in a Lifetime
thrown in, all talking heads, witty one-liners and angst-ridden relationships … Did I like this book? Well, d'uh! Do hedgehogs have quills? A pure belter of a novel.'
Glasgow Herald
 
‘Colgan's enjoyable new bestseller investigates the notion that having it all can sometimes mean having precisely nothing at all.'
Marie Claire
 
‘Colgan's
Looking for Andrew McCarthy
is sharp, well-observed and hilarious.'
New Statesman
 
‘Colgan's got an ear for sarky dialogue and a humour that gives her more options … retro-irony, perfect for a conscientious objector's beach holiday.'
ID
 
‘Jenny Colgan delivers the goods with her new novel … absolutely brilliant! What really sets Jenny apart from most of her contemporaries is this: she is very, very funny, so much so that this book had me laughing out loud.'
Express
 
‘There's razor-sharp wit to this tale of romantic confusion.'
Cosmopolitan
 
 
 
Amanda's Wedding:
 
‘Amanda's Wedding
is a scream.'
Elle
 
‘Four Weddings and a Funeral
meets
Friends.'
Tatler
 
‘Compulsively comical.'
Cosmopolitan
 
‘Funny and insightful.'
Mail on Sunday
Jenny Colgan was born in 1972 in Ayrshire. After Edinburgh University, she worked for six years in the health service, moonlighting as a cartoonist and stand-up comic. She is the author of four previous bestselling novels:
Amanda's Wedding, Talking to Addison, Looking for Andrew McCarthy
and
Working Wonders
, all of which are in development for film and TV. Jenny is married, lives in London and is working on her sixth novel. For more information, visit her website at
www.jennycolgan.com
.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
 
 
THE BOY I LOVED BEFORE. Copyright © 2004 by Jenny Colgan. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
 
 
First published in Great Britain under the title
Do You Remember the First Time?
by HarperCollins
Publishers
 
 
eISBN 9781466819429
First eBook Edition : April 2012
 
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 0-312-33198-3
EAN 978-0312-33198-6
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