A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

earliest edition we have, 2003 Random House Children's Books, 2003

Gemma Doyle (1)

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 watch her. But...

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A Great and Terrible Beauty audiobook · 2007 · Listening Library (Audio) · 9780807223765
A Great and Terrible Beauty edition · 2005 · Delacorte Press · 403 pages
A great and terrible beauty edition · 2003 · Delacorte Press · 403 pages
A Great and Terrible Beauty edition · 2003 · Random House Children's Books · 9780375890499

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