num_pages: 403
description: In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)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?
language: English
title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
titlecomplete: A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
characters: Pippa Cross, Kartik, Ann Bradshaw, Gemma Doyle, Felicity Worthington
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Magic, Teen, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Paranormal, Young Adult Fantasy
ratings_count: 220876
places: England, India, United Kingdom, London, England
series: Gemma Doyle
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Iowa High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Simon and Schuster