First time / Lara Harte

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Cassandra is fourteen, terminally shy and a bit of a misfit at her respectable Dublin girls' school. Emma, with her lank hair, bad skin and twenty-a-day habit comes across as a free spirit. When the two meet on the first day of term, the attraction is immediate. For Cassandra, being with Emma is a chance to walk on the wild side, to escape the stifling closeness of school and her middle-class family. Emma, trapped on a grim housing estate on the outskirts of the city sees Cassandra as the kind of person she knows she'll never be...