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8. Start doing yoga

Just think I could be like Madonna! OK, I wouldn't perhaps go
that
far, but it would be nice to actually touch my toes…

9. You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it

I used to think that you had to be somehow 'special' or 'different' to be able write a book and get it published. I never thought that could happen to me. I could never be so lucky. It was only when I decided to give it a go and I actually sat down and wrote my first novel that I realised that the only thing that had been stopping me for all those years, was me.
What's Nezv, Pussycat
? was published just over a year later, proving that although luck plays a small part in everything, it's mostly down to enthusiasm, self-belief and a bucket-load of determination. (Oh, and Kettle chips. Bags and bags of Kettle chips.)

10. At 21 you are more powerful than you can ever imagine

When I was younger I didn't have a clue about anything. I was broke, I lacked confidence, and my hair had a funny greenish tinge from dying it with henna. Little did I know that none of it mattered - at that age you have the world at your feet. So any twenty-one-year-olds out there reading this - take note!

Alexandra Potter, 2008

ME AND MR DARCY

He's every woman's fantasy…

After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she's had it with modernday men. She'd rather pour herself a glass of wine, curl up with
Pride and Prejudice
and step into a time where men were dashing, devoted and honourable, strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests, and
weren't
into internet porn. So when her best friend invites her to Mexico for a week of margaritas and men, Emily decides to book a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead.

She quickly realises she won't find her dream man here. The coach tour is full of pensioners, apart from one Mr Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist sent to write a piece on why Mr Darcy's been voted the man most women would love to date.

Until she walks into a room and finds herself face-to-face with Darcy himself. And every woman's fantasy suddenly becomes one woman's reality.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

I wish I could get a seat on the tube… I hadn't eaten that entire bag of Maltesers… I could meet
a man whose hobbies include washing up and monogamy… '

Heather Hamilton is always wishing for things. Not just big stuff - like world peace or for a date with Brad Pitt - but little, everyday wishes, made without thinking. With her luck, she knows they'll never come true…

Until one day she buys some lucky heather from a gypsy. Suddenly the bad hair days stop; a handsome American answers her ad for a housemate; and she starts seeing James - The Perfect Man who sends her flowers, excels in the bedroom, and isn't afraid to say 'I love you'…

But are these wishes-come-true a blessing or a curse? And is there such a thing as
too much
foreplay?

If only you knew then what you know now…

Imagine if you could go back ten years and meet your younger self would you recognise her?

What advice would you give?

*Wear sunscreen Back away from those PVC trousers

*
DON'T give that idiot your phone number

*Lemon juice won't bleach your hair it just attracts wasps *He's The One don't let him get away For Charlotte Merryweather, there's no need to imagine. She's about to find out for real. With some surprising consequences…

Alexandra Potter's deliciously enchanting romantic comedy looks at life, love and what might happen if you — could turn back time.

Have you read Be Careful What You Wish For and Me and Mr Darcy, also published by Hodder?