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 a new world emerges, a world of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors – and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.
'Sly and glittering' Hilary Mantel
'Impossible to resist' Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099569978
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 362 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm
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
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