Name: The Quick
Rating: 3.125 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9780812993271

Lauren Owen

The Quick

The first 100ish pages were a be rough - the changes in style, POV, cast, and time-frame was jarring - but it picked up a bit after

Rhonda Roy

London, 1893: James Norbury is a shy would-be poet, newly down from Oxford and confounded by the sinister, labyrinthine city at his doorstep. Taking up lodging with a dissolute young aristocrat, he is introduced to the drawing rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. On the cusp of achieving a happiness long denied to him, he vanishes without a trace. His sister Charlotte sets out to find her brother. Her search leads her to one of the country's pre-eminent and mysterious institutions: The Aegolius Club.

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Jackie Cunningham

Elena Antolini

Matthew Zabel

Kathy Rodger 

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick âe" 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 Londonâe(tm)s mysterious Aegolius Club âe" a society of the richest, most powerful men in England. And at some point âe" we cannot say when âe" these worlds will collide. It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, a world of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors âe" and the secrets of The Quick are revealed. 'Sly and glittering' Hilary Mantel 'Impossible to resist' Kate Atkinson

The Quick

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