A Great and Terrible Beauty
β Scribed by Bray, Libba
- Book ID
- 108904478
- Publisher
- Delacorte
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Series
- Gemma Doyle 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780375890499
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β¦ Synopsis
Itβs 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, Gemmaβs reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, sheβs 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 Spenceβs most powerful girlsβand their foray into the spiritual worldβlead to?
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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
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