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A Great and Terrible Beauty. A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. It is told from the perspective of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the year 1895. Gemma leaves her home in India to go to a boarding school in England after her mother dies. Once there, she is plagued by clairvoyant visions as she looks ...
- Libba Bray
- 2003
Dec 9, 2003 · A Great and Terrible Beauty isn't the worst book I've ever read, comparing with A Discovery of Witches (which I'm sure I'm going to Do Not Finish) it's highly enjoyable. It's a quick, easy read and it doesn't charge you too much brain cells, but I still won't recommend it to people who've already read a few paranormal YA novels before, because the story really is Nothing Special.
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- Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty is a young adult fantasy novel written by Libba Bray and published in 2003. Set in 1895, it follows Gemma Doyle, a 16-year-old girl who moves from India to a finishing school in England after her mother commits suicide under mysterious circumstances. Gemma is able to join a circle of friends, but she remains plagued ...
Plot Summary. A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003) by Libba Bray finds sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle coping with the mysterious death of her mother and her newfound clairvoyant powers. When her family sends her to Spence Academy for Young Ladies, the mystery deepens, as Gemma and her newfound friends discover a way to enter different worlds.
Summary. A Great and Terrible Beauty begins on Gemma Doyle’s sixteenth birthday. It is nearing the end of the nineteenth century, and Gemma, who has grown up in India, longs to travel to London ...
About A Great and Terrible Beauty. The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.
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Dec 1, 2003 · Book Summary. 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 ...
