A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty
AuthorLibba Bray
Cover artistMichael Frost
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGemma Doyle Trilogy
GenreFantasy novel
Published2003 (Random House)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages403
ISBN0-385-73028-4
OCLC52312403
LC ClassPZ7.B7386 Gr 2003
Followed byRebel 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.