7 rows · · “Lauren Owen is an impressive storyteller and with this ambitious debut, the literary world will Brand: Random House Publishing Group. In her first novel, Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying. The Quick will establish her as one of fiction’s most dazzling talents. Praise for The Quick “A suspenseful, gloriously atmospheric first novel, and a feast of gothic storytelling that is Author: Lauren Owen. · Reading the blurbs on the dust jacket of Lauren Owen’s first novel — from such luminaries as Kate Atkinson, Hilary Mantel and Tana French — readers might think they’re about to Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
In her first novel, Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying. The Quick will establish her as one of fiction's most dazzling talents. Named one of the Top Literary Fiction Books of the Season by Publishers Weekly. A young man from the Victorian provinces comes to London to meet new kinds of people - and hoo boy, does he - in Lauren Owen's lavish and, yes, seductive debut novel. Artist's DA page: bltadwin.ru: bltadwin.ru Audio-Only version: bltadwin.ru
The Quick is a tense twisting vampire thriller in which point of view switches constantly between the siblings, Mould, the Quick club members, street Undead, and vampire hunters Adeline Swift and Shadwell, etc. Subgenre fans who prefer a frantic pace will not want to read this tale; but those in the audience who appreciate a sense of being transported to late Victorian London to witness the vampire incursion will relish Lauren Owen's strong supernatural historical. Reading the blurbs on the dust jacket of Lauren Owen’s first novel — from such luminaries as Kate Atkinson, Hilary Mantel and Tana French — readers might think they’re about to embark on a. The Quick. Lauren Owen, Random House. pp. ISBN Summary. A novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat.
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