Summary
A major debut adventure
You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick -
But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy. You will, in time, enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club - a society of the richest, most powerful men in England. And at some point - we cannot say when - these worlds will collide.
It is then, and only then, that …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099569978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099569973 |
| Author: | Lauren Owen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A sly and glittering addition to the literature of the macabre … As soon as you have breathed with relief, much worse horrors begin. It’s a skilled, assured performance, and it’s hard to believe it is a first novel. – HILARY MANTEL
A Gothic blockbuster. * Independent *
Energetically throwing together real history and gothic fantasy, Owen has produced a novel that is macabre, readable and atmospheric. – Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *
A suspenseful, gloriously atmospheric first novel, and a feast of gothic storytelling that is impossible to resist. – KATE ATKINSON
Debut gothic mystery from a new British talent. – Kate Figes * Mail on Sunday *
Richly immersive… The story twists from coming-of-age to night of the undead. – Stacey Bartlett * Bookseller *
A gripping Gothic tour of Victorian Yorkshire and London which is full of shocks and surprises, The Quick is an assured and forceful debut from an exciting new British author. A novel to devour, re-read and recommend. – Bea Carvalho * Bookseller *
An amazing debut. * Company *
Lauren Owen has created an utterly beguiling fantastical world. As emotionally involving as it is suspenseful, The Quick will establish her as one of contemporary fiction’s most dazzling talents. * Horror Cult Films *
A devilishly dark, bloodthirsty thriller. * Good Housekeeping *
Lauren Owen
Lauren Owen was born in 1985 and grew up in the grounds of an old country house in Yorkshire. Her first attempts at writing as a teenager were Harry Potter fan fictions. She is a graduate of St Hilda’s, Oxford, holds an MA in Victorian Literature, is completing a PhD on Gothic writing and fan culture, and is the recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer on the UEA creative-writing programme. The Quick is her first novel.
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