403 pages
English language
Published Jan. 12, 2003 by Delacorte Press.
A great and terrible beauty
by Libba Bray
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After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Subjects
- Magic -- Fiction.
- Supernatural -- Fiction.
- Boarding schools -- Fiction.
- Schools -- Fiction.
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.