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Lauren Owen is an author based in Yorkshire. Her first novel, The Quick, was published in 2014. She is currently writing her second book.
Lauren Owen is an author based in Yorkshire. Her first novel, The Quick, was published in 2014. Her second novel is due for publication in 2022.
Lauren Owen's gripping début novel, The Quick, set in the 19th Century shapeshifts from a literary coming-of-age tale to a bloodthirsty thriller.
Lauren Owen. © Grace Pictures. Lauren grew up in Yorkshire and studied at St Hilda’s College Oxford. She holds an MA in Victorian Literature from Leeds University, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize.
The Quick. Lauren Owen. 3.26. 9,126 ratings1,844 reviews. An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London. London, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat.
Lauren Owen. In a brilliant debut, a young author makes her mark on the world of the Gothic. Interview by Michael Alec Rose. With The Quick, Lauren Owen has created a brilliant literary debut to rival the work of classic Gothic authors like Radcliffe and Brontë.
Lauren Owen is twenty-eight years old and grew up in the grounds of a boarding school in Yorkshire. Her first attempts at writing as a teenager were Harry Potter fan fiction. She is a graduate of St Hilda's, Oxford, holds an MA in Victorian Literature, is completing a PhD on Gothic writing and fan culture, and is the recipient of the UEA ...
