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The Quick
- Author
- Lauren Owen
- Narrator
- Simon Slater
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 3 April 2014
- Run Time
- 18 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –
But first you must travel to Victorian Yorkshire, and there, on a remote country estate, meet a brother and sister alone in the world and bound by tragedy. In time, you will enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club – a society of some of the richest, most powerful men in fin-de-siecle England. And at some point – we cannot say when – these worlds will collide.
It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, one of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors – and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.
Critics Review
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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
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A Gothic blockbuster.
Independent
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Energetically throwing together real history and gothic fantasy, Owen has produced a novel that is macabre, readable and atmospheric.
Sunday Times
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A suspenseful, gloriously atmospheric first novel, and a feast of gothic storytelling that is impossible to resist.
KATE ATKINSON
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Debut gothic mystery from a new British talent.
Mail on Sunday
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Richly immersive... The story twists from coming-of-age to night of the undead.
Bookseller
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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.
Bookseller
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An amazing debut.
Company
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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
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A devilishly dark, bloodthirsty thriller.
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Details
- Author
- Lauren Owen
- Narrator
- Simon Slater
- Duration
- 18 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 April 2014
- ISBN
- 9781448192427
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –But first you must travel to Victorian Yorkshire, and there, on a remote country estate, meet a brother and sister alone in the world and bound by tragedy. In time, you will enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club – a society of some of the richest, most powerful men in fin-de-siecle England. And at some point – we cannot say when – these worlds will collide. It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, one of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors – and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.
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