A Great and Terrible Beauty

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**The first book in the critically acclaimed *New York Times *bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and* Under the Same Stars.*** 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 why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? **“A delicious, elegant gothic.”—* PW* , Starred “Shivery with both passion and terror.”— *Kirkus Reviews* Compulsively readable. VOYA A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Bestseller A Book Sense Bestseller BBYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults) Iowa High School Book Award Garden State Teen Book Award Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award**