From the author of The Diviners series comes the first installment of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy a dark and eerie supernatural period drama. It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in British India to Spence Academy, 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 at Spence is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man who has been 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?

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book features in the following series: Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Readers Circle, The Gemma Doyle Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 12-18 years.

There are 416 pages in this book. This book was published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster Ltd .

Libba Bray is the acclaimed author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy and is the 2010 Printz Award winner for her stand-alone novel Going Bovine. She lives in New York City.