A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
Ranked #34 in Victorian, Ranked #55 in Teen Fantasy — see more rankings.
In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)
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... more
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... more
Rankings by Category
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #60 in Gothic
- #84 in Teen
- #81 in Teen Fiction
- #91 in Trilogy
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