A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba BrayItÂ?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, GemmaÂ?s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, sheÂ?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 SpenceÂ?s most powerful girlsÂ?and their foray into the spiritual worldÂ?lead to?
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 416 pages
- English
- 0385730284
- 9780385730280
About Libba Bray
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