Jenkins' third novel is set in two real places... but is about the ways in which we imagine the world

Jenkins' tender narrative voice is well suited to a heroine still innocent enough to see the good in people... It's a tall order to mix American Gothic with gritty Northern realism, but Jenkins likes to keep herself and her readers entertained... This invigorating novel bottles the seasonal delights of both Coney and Morecambe Bay

Lighthearted and confident, a bouncy, enjoyable read

A joy to read

Ingenious and gripping

Jenkins's novel is well-written, elegantly constructed...the arresting opening and skilful characterisation demonstrate Jenkins's strengths as a writer, along with her powerful evocation of place

Angel of Brooklyn is a delightfully illustrative novel about a homesick new bride with a big secret. It is charming and tender in equal measure and Jenkins tells the story of her heroine with a beguiling innocence that captures your imagination from the beginning

The novel's delicate counterpoint of psychiatrist and war-damaged poet invites comparison with Pat Barker's Regeneration...Edric is a virtuoso of atmospheric settings

His language is precise and compressed, each word invested with a world of meaning. An uneasy, thought-provoking work which stays with you long after you have finished reading it.

With its shifting, subtle light this is a potent exercise in fictional recuperation

Full...of symbols of oppression and human anonymity, In Zodiac Light is a sound evocation of an artist tragically divorced from his calling

This book reinforces the status of the prolific Edric as one of English fiction's best-kept secrets

Edric succeeds in painting an atmospheric dystopia that is at once unsettling and frightening and laudable for its skilful evocation of the doom and the despair