A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible BeautyThe 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. 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

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.

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?

"A delicious, elegant gothic."--PW, Starred

"Shivery with both passion and terror."--Kirkus Reviews

"Compulsively readable." --VOYA

A New York Times Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A Book Sense Bestseller
BBYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults)
Iowa High School Book Award
Garden State Teen Book Award
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ember
Published: 03/22/2005
ISBN: 9780385732314
Pages: 403
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.98d

Review Citations: Kliatt 05/01/2005 pg. 20
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2005 pg. 54

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 75342 / Great and Terrible Beauty
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14