Camden New Journal recently interviewed Ferdinand Dennis, and reviewed his novel, Concrete Dreams.
[Dennis] crafts his characters with consummate skill and vividly evokes places: a derelict house in Stoke Newington that Lucas buys in the 1950s and renovates for his family, and for letting rooms to tenants; the Jamaica of Lucas and Rhoda’s memory; Finsbury Park and the neighbourhood’s streets, shops and cafes. [ . . . ] The narrator’s personal story brings an intriguing ultimate twist to the multilayered novel, which leaves its characters lingering in the mind long after the final page is read.
