The Quick Av Lauren Owen

<p><b>You are about to discover the secrets of <i>The Quick –</i><br></b><br>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. <br><br>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 <i>The Quick </i>are revealed.<br><br>''Sly and glittering'' Hilary Mantel<br><br>''Impossible to resist'' Kate Atkinson</p>