A Great and Terrible Beauty
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
From the author of The Diviners series comes the first installment of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy – a dark and eerie supernatural period drama.
It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in British India to Spence Academy, 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 at Spence is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man who has been 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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a starred review, PW called this debut novel set in Victorian times "riveting." When the 16-year-old narrator's mother dies, the teen envisions how it happened, then finds herself en route to a British boarding school. "The pace is swift, the finale gripping." Ages 12-up.
Customer Reviews
Love every second
These books were fantastic and entertaining to no end. The way Libba writes is very descriptive in a way that makes you feel involved. I truly feel like I know the characters and am a little heartbroken that I won't be able to read any more.