Emlyn Rees è un autore che intreccia magistralmente narrazioni avvincenti con approfondimenti sulla psiche umana. Il suo lavoro si addentra spesso in inseguimenti adrenalinici e trame intricate che tengono i lettori con il fiato sospeso. La prosa di Rees è caratterizzata da un ritmo fluido e una qualità immersiva, che lo rendono un narratore avvincente di storie piene di suspense.
Focussed and determined - and bruised by a past relationship - he's not looking for distractions. But as pieces of the past start to fall into place, the restoration also brings together Jimmy and Verity, two local teenagers: one falling in love for the first time, the other an incurable romantic, determined to find her fairy-tale hero.
As the 1980's dawn 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'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. Meanwhile, Fred's life is also changing: he's set to marry his girlfriend in just a few short weeks. Then he bumps into Mickey for the first time since their worlds fell apart. As they pick up the threads of their friendship, Fred and Mickey relive 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 sad, The Boy Next Door is a story about growing up, falling in and out of love and learning you're never too old to be a kid.