THE QUICK - Lauren Owen
~ Standard Hardcover
~ Winner of the Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction - 2015
The Aegolius Club is a mysterious club, run by a group of elite and powerful men with many secrets. The local Londoners can only speculate on what goes on behind the walls . . .
An astonishing debut, The Quick is a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London. Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying, and is sure to establish her as one of fiction's most dazzling new stars.
"An elegant, witty, force-of-nature writing, The Quick is that rare book that reviewers and readers live for: both plot- and character-driven, a stay-up-all-night-reading romp of more than 500 pages that you’ll desperately wish was double that." -- Dallas Morning News
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THE QUICK - Lauren Owen
THE QUICK - Lauren Owen
~ Standard Hardcover
~ Winner of the Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction - 2015
The Aegolius Club is a mysterious club, run by a group of elite and powerful men with many secrets. The local Londoners can only speculate on what goes on behind the walls . . .
An astonishing debut, The Quick is a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London. Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying, and is sure to establish her as one of fiction's most dazzling new stars.
"An elegant, witty, force-of-nature writing, The Quick is that rare book that reviewers and readers live for: both plot- and character-driven, a stay-up-all-night-reading romp of more than 500 pages that you’ll desperately wish was double that." -- Dallas Morning News
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~ Standard Hardcover
~ Winner of the Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction - 2015
The Aegolius Club is a mysterious club, run by a group of elite and powerful men with many secrets. The local Londoners can only speculate on what goes on behind the walls . . .
An astonishing debut, The Quick is a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London. Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying, and is sure to establish her as one of fiction's most dazzling new stars.
"An elegant, witty, force-of-nature writing, The Quick is that rare book that reviewers and readers live for: both plot- and character-driven, a stay-up-all-night-reading romp of more than 500 pages that you’ll desperately wish was double that." -- Dallas Morning News
