num_pages: 405
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—lead to?From the Hardcover edition.
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: Delacorte Books for Young Readers