title: A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)
author:  Libba Bray 
description: A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel.
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  Libba Bray is the number one bestselling author of _The Diviners_ , _Lair of
  Dreams_ , the _Los Angeles Times_ Book prize finalist _Beauty Queens_ , the
  2010 Printz Award-winning _Going Bovine_ , and the acclaimed Gemma Doyle
  trilogy. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [Copyright](toc.html#toc-copyright)
  
  
  Published by Atom
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-7481-2247-9
  
  
  All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the
  public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or
  dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 Martha E. Bray
  
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted.
  
  
  Title page image copyright © Burton Pritzker/Getty Images
  
  
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