Novel Writers: Lauren Owen, The Quick

Meet the best debut fiction writers. Lauren Owen’s The Quick is a remarkable gothic tale moving between Victorian Yorkshire, where a brother and sister are alone in the world and bound by tragedy, and London's mysterious Aegolius Club, a society of some of the richest, most powerful men in fin-de-siecle England. When these worlds collide, a new one emerges, one of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors - and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.