Kiki’s Epeolatry

  'Set against the colourful boho backdrop of London's Camden in the 1990s, Craig Revel Horwood's first novel,  Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street , tells the story of an unlikely family of friends who each rent a room in a ramshackle six-bedroom, four-storey townhouse. Like any family, the residents of Diamond Street sometimes fights and often act up but when the chips are down, they're there for each other in an instant - usually brandishing a cheap bottle of booze, and the offer of an impromptu kitchen disco.  Presided over by the wise-cracking but warm-hearted patriarch of the family, Danny Hall, a professional dancer turned choreographer, the novel follows a year in the life of the inhabitants of Diamond Street, rough diamonds one and all, as they try to achieve their dreams - with unexpected, heart-warming and sometimes hilarious results.' Set in the heart of the 1990's, Horwood's first novel feels like a time-capsule from a pocket of what could be de...