The release date for the English version of 'A Great and Terrible Beauty' by
Libba Bray is Dec 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Unknown visions, sinister family secrets, and a long-lost journal force Gemma and her classmates to confront the horrors that followed her from India in this first Gothic book. (Over 12)
In 1895, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is sent from her familiar life in India to Spence, an English boarding school, after the death of her mother. Gemma is met with a cold greeting there because she is lonely, troubled by guilt, and prone to unsettling glimpses of the future that seem to come true. To further matters, a mystery young Indian guy who was dispatched to keep an eye on her is following her. However, why? What fate does she face? And what will happen when she becomes involved with the most influential females in Spence and their venture into the spiritual realm?