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Mickey Maloney and Fred Roper grew up together in a sleepy English village, and share everything. Fifteen years later, Mickey is beginning a new phase in her life as a single mum, when she bumps into Fred. He and his girlfriend are moving towards a new life also with their wedding just months away, but now ...
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The Boy Next Door is the third offering from bestselling duo Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees. Their previous books, Come Together and Come Again, carved out a niche in the popular romance genre with their alternating boy/girl perspectives; and this novel uses the same device to tell the story of childhood best friends pulled apart by tragedy and reunited by coincidence. Fred Roper is a technophile: "I'm into technology, it's a compulsion and a fear." He has a cool job as a marketing manager for an online company and a hot fiancée who has an "insatiable sexual appetite". But he's not really happy. Mickey Malony, his 70s best friend, hasn't seen him in 15 years. She's also living in London, runs her own flower shop and is bringing up her young son on her own. They meet by chance in a toy superstore, and the remainder of the book is a will they? won't they? get-it-together scenario against a backdrop of their shared memories from their small town past. The novel is nice, an old fashioned romance, but with a modern twist--techno boy rekindles lost love with the down to earth flower shop girl, even the language has a love in bloom quality to it: "her short curved lip turned tender and full". The Boy Next Door is an entertaining look at first love and the way it can all gone wrong and then go right. --Eithne Farry
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Praise for Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees: "Brilliantly written and wittily observed." -"Express "Vivid and funny." -"The Times "From the Hardcover edition.
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Condition: Bueno. : En el tranquilo pueblo inglés de Rushton, Mickey y Fred son vecinos y mejores amigos desde la infancia. Convencidos de que nada los separará, la vida los lleva por caminos distintos. Quince años después, Mickey comienza una nueva etapa con una floristería en Londres, mientras Fred está a punto de casarse. Un reencuentro inesperado los lleva a revivir los días de gloria en Rushton, pero ¿podrán superar los eventos que los separaron? Una historia sobre crecer, el amor y la amistad, que te recordará que nunca es tarde para ser un niño. EAN: 9780099436454 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Romance|Literatura y Ficción Título: The Boy Next Door Autor: Josie Lloyd| Emlyn Rees Editorial: Arrow Books Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-09-12-308252a9
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Condition: Muy bueno. : En el tranquilo pueblo inglés de Rushton, Mickey y Fred son vecinos y mejores amigos desde la infancia. Convencidos de que nada los separará, la vida los lleva por caminos distintos. Quince años después, Mickey comienza una nueva etapa con una floristería en Londres, mientras Fred está a punto de casarse. Un reencuentro inesperado los lleva a revivir los días de gloria en Rushton, pero ¿podrán superar los eventos que los separaron? Una historia sobre crecer, el amor y la amistad, que te recordará que nunca es tarde para ser un niño. EAN: 9780099436454 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Romance|Literatura y Ficción Título: The Boy Next Door Autor: Josie Lloyd| Emlyn Rees Editorial: Arrow Books Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-09-04-2f18d544
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