Lauren Owen is twenty-eight years old and grew up in the grounds of an old country house in Yorkshire. Her first writings as a teenager were Harry Potter fan fictions. She is currently completing a PhD on Gothic writing and fan culture, and her first novel The Quick is coming out in April 2014.

You can find out more about The Quick by following The Aegolis Club on Twitter - the sinister club at the heart of the novel: search for TheAegoliusClub

The Quick is out in the UK, most of the commonwealth and Europe on 3rd April 2014  – you can pre-order that edition here: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224096389/lauren-owen/the-quick/. 

The Quick is out in the US and Canada on 17th June 2014 - you can pre-order the US edition here: https://www.randomhouse.com/book/217657/the-quick-by-lauren-owen and the Canadian edition here: http://www.randomhouse.ca/books/222568/the-quick-by-lauren-owen?isbn=9780771068218