The Quick
- 1892: 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. In Yorkshire, His Sister Charlotte--only In Her Twenties But Already Resigned To Life As A Rural Spinster--sets Out To Find Her Brother. Her Search For Answers Leads Her To One Of The Country's Pre-eminent And Mysterious Institutions: The Aegolius Club, Whose Members Include The Richest, Most Ambitious Men In England. Trying To Save James--and Herself--from The Club's Designs, Charlotte Uncovers A Secret World At The City's Margins Populated By Unforgettable Characters: A Female Rope Walker Turned Vigilante, A Street Urchin With A Deadly Secret, And The Chilling 'dr. Knife.' As Emotionally Involving As It Is Suspenseful, The Quick Will Establish Its Young Author As One Of Contemporary Fiction's Most Dazzling Talents.-- Lauren Owen.
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Author: Owen, Lauren.
- Publisher: Random House
- Pages: 523
- Publication Date: 2014-06-17T00:00:01Z
- Edition: 1st
- Binding: Hardcover
- MSRP: 27
- ISBN13: 9780812993271
- ISBN: 0812993276
- Language: en_US
- Quality Rating: 1
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