The life-changing event in India, sends Gemma Doyle to a boarding school in England.
By John Irvin
I knew there was something special about Gemma Doyle, this fanciful young girl living in India with her mother.
But when the moment happens that turns her life for the worse it seems, every sign told me she had powers she didn’t know about.
With the boy stalking her, I wondered what that was about.
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.
“In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)
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?”
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