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A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

 

It is 1895 and after the death of her mother, 16 year old Gemma Doyle is shipped from her life in India to attend Spence, a finishing school in England. Lonely, gilt ridden and prone top visions of the future, Gemma finds her reception a chilling one. She also finds that her visions of the future have the uncanny knack of coming true. She is also not completely alone, as she is being followed by a mysterious young man who has been sent to warn her about her visions.

It is at Spence that Gemma’s power to attract the supernatural unfolds. There she also becomes entangled with the school’s most powerful girls and discovers her mother’s connection to a shadowy group called The Order. Her destiny awaits.

A Great And Terrible Beauty is book one of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy. It is a blend of period drama and tale of the supernatural. It is a suspenseful and compelling story and although it is set earlier, it is touched with modern attitudes on adolescence, religion and the supernatural to appeal more to a modern market and today’s young adults.

RRP $25.00
Published and distributed by Penguin Group under the Simon and Schuster title

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