description: A Great and Terrible Beauty is a curl-up-under-the-covers kind of book . . . a vast canvas of rustling skirts and dancing shadows and things that go bump in the night. It's a vividly drawn portrait of the Victorian age, a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, when girls were groomed for lives as rich men's wives . . . and the story of a girl who saw another way.
language: English
title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
titlecomplete: A Great and Terrible Beauty
characters: Pippa Cross, Felicity Worthington, Gemma Doyle, Ann Bradshaw, Kartik
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 220893
places: England, London, England, India, United Kingdom
series: Gemma Doyle
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Iowa High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Thorndike Press