A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty

The first in this gorgeous gothic trilogy, A Great and Terrible Beauty draws this reader into the mysterious and magical world of Gemma Doyle…

It's 1895, and after the death 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 being 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?

Libba Bray has worked as a waitress, a nanny, a publishing assistant and as an advertising copywriter. Raised in Texas on a diet of British humour, underground bands, suburban dysfunction and bad TV, she now lives in New York with her husband and young son.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Simon and Schuster Australia
Author: Libba Bray
ISBN: 9780731814541
Price: $19.99