A major debut adventure
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.
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.
*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.
*Mail on Sunday*
Richly immersive... The story twists from coming-of-age to night of
the undead.
*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.
*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*
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