The boy next door – Josie Lloyd, Emlyn Rees

Description

It’s the 1980s in the sleepy English village of Rushton. Mickey and Fred are next-door neighbours and best friends. In and out of scrapes from the day they’re born, they share everything from their first cigarette to their first kiss. They’re convinced that nothing will ever keep them apart. But they’re wrong.

Fifteen years later, Mickey is beginning a new phase of her life with a small flower shop in London. Squeezed into the tiny flat above, she’s a loving, if chaotic, single mum, juggling home and work and trying to build a secure life.

Fred, too, has moved on. Surrounded by the trappings of success – an exciting career and a London lifestyle – he’s set to marry his gorgeous girlfriend in just a few short weeks. Then he bumps into Mickey for the first time since their worlds fell apart.

Tentatively picking up the threads of their lost friendship, Fred and Mickey find themselves reliving their glory days growing up in Rushton but can they ever really overcome the devastating events that once tore them apart? And is it true what they say about first loves being forever?

Warm, funny and moving, The boy next door is about growing up, falling in and out of love and learning that you’re never too old to be a kid.