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A Great and Terrible Beauty
A Young Adult Historical Fiction Novel by Libba Bray
Book 1 of the The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Series
Subgenres:
- Boarding School,
- Paranormal Historical,
- Victorian England
This book is for you if you're into...
- Victorian boarding schools with secret societies and supernatural intrigue
- Girls discovering dangerous powers and forbidden realms
- Haunted atmospheres where grief and guilt shape every decision
The first book in the Gemma Doyle trilogy, this exhilarating and haunting saga is set in 1895. 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?
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