The Boy Next DoorThe authors of the book are: Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees TitleThe title of this book is: The Boy Next Door. The authors choose this title for the novel because Fred was "the boy next door" to Mickey Mouse. They spent much of their childhood together because they were neighbors. PagesThe book has 293 pages. YearThe novel was first published in 2001. SettingThe story is set in the 1980s and also fifteen years later (circa 1995). The story is set in Rushton, a village in England and in a town in England, whose name, however, has not been revealed. It's a love story. Plot Fred is about to get married to Rebecca, but then he runs into Mickey Mouse, his best friend and first love from the past. Mickey is a single mother and has a son, Joe. He has his own flower shop. At first Fred doesn't know how to react, because he has left the past behind him (later in the book you will find out why. It's about his strange father, Miles, who killed someone and then committed suicide). After the strange meeting after fifteen years in the toy shop, Fred decides to get in touch with Mickey Mouse. They see each other a couple of times and both have fun. Fred also likes Joe and vice versa. Mickey is starting to fall in love with Fred again and Fred is falling in love with Mickey a little too, but in a few weeks he's getting married! They don't tell each other their feelings. When Mickey and Joe take a trip to Rushton, the place where Mickey and Fred lived when they were young, Fred comes to visit them too. Together they collect beautiful stories from their childhood. They almost have sex, until Mickey decides it's not cool when they have sex. It's not good for Joe, not for Fred, not for Rebecca and not for herself, because otherwise she would actually fall in love with him again and they couldn't have a relationship because of Rebecca. Fred thinks she's right, but when he gets home he tells Rebecca he can't marry her because of Mickey. Fred finally tells Mickey (in long-winded ways) that he should meet him and "if you want, you'd know where." Mickey goes to Rushton, to the place where they first kissed, but he is not there.