Pretty, middle-class Cassandra is a bit of a misfit in her respectable Dublin girls' school, until she meets Emma, from the wrong side of the tracks, who intoduces her to a life on the wild side, 'dossing' and drinking...First Time is a refreshing and moving novel Sarah Francis, Times Literary Supplement A gripping portrayal of a fifteen-year-old girl stumbling, unprepared, into an adult world...extremely well written ...it has a deeply genuine feel to it Carolyn Hart, Financial Times Harte has got it absolutely right. It's raw, slightly grubby, and spectacularlywell-observed' Christie Hickman, Midweek