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A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Delacorte Books for Young Readers (Dec 09, 2003)
9780385730280
| Hardcover
416 pages | 153 x 218 mm | English
LC Classification PZ7.B7386 .Gr 2003
LC Control No. 2003009472

Subject

  • Boarding Schools/ Fiction
  • Magic
  • Magic/ Fiction
  • Supernatural
  • Supernatural/ Fiction

Plot

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?