num_pages: 403
description: 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's lead to?
language: English
title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
titlecomplete: A Great and Terrible Beauty
characters: Ann Bradshaw, Gemma Doyle, Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross, Kartik
genres: Paranormal, Historical, Fantasy, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 220887
places: United Kingdom, India, London, England, England
series: Gemma Doyle
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Iowa High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Delacorte Press