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| Author | Libba Bray |
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| Cover artist | Michael Frost |
| Language | English |
| Series | Gemma Doyle Trilogy |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Published | 2003 (Random House) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 403 |
| ISBN | 0-385-73028-4 |
| OCLC | 52312403 |
| LC Class | PZ7.B7386 Gr 2003 |
| Followed by | Rebel Angels |
A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. It is told from the perspective of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the year 1895.
Gemma leaves her home in India to go to a boarding school in England after her mother dies. Once there, she is plagued by clairvoyant visions as she looks into the magical secrets of the school with her three friends Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross, and Ann Bradshaw.