~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction - 2015

The Aegolius Club is a mysterious club, run by a group of elite and powerful men with many secrets.  The local Londoners can only speculate on what goes on behind the walls . . . 

An astonishing debut, The Quick is a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London.  Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying, and is sure to establish her as one of fiction's most dazzling new stars.

"An elegant, witty, force-of-nature writing, The Quick is that rare book that reviewers and readers live for: both plot- and character-driven, a stay-up-all-night-reading romp of more than 500 pages that you’ll desperately wish was double that." -- Dallas Morning News