Review at Locus

Lovely review at Locus from Ian Mond, who calls The Angels of L19 a 'tremendous novel', and says:

I, of course, loved Walker’s sudden switch from the quotidian to the supernatural. Not just because it’s an audacious move (which it clearly is) but because this clash of styles plays cleverly into the novel’s themes about religion and faith. ... While Walker is careful not to draw any facile conclusions about religious belief, in straddling between the real and the unreal, the mimetic and the fantastic, he brilliantly lays bare the struggles of two teenag­ers striving to find meaning and comfort in a world increasingly overburdened by misery and despair.