Gemma becomes haunted with the images of her mother's death. Angry at her mother's secrecy, Gemma runs away, and has a vision of her mother committing suicide while searching for her, which she later learns is true. The man relays an unknown message to Gemma's mother about a woman named Circe, and Gemma's mother panics and demands that Gemma return home. On her sixteenth birthday, Gemma and her mother stroll through the Bombay market when they encounter a man and his younger brother. Gemma Doyle, the series' protagonist, is forced to leave India after the death of her mother to attend a private boarding school in London. Once there, she is plagued by clairvoyant visions as she looks into the magical secrets of the school with her three friends Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross, and Ann Bradshaw. Gemma leaves her home in India to go to a boarding school in England after her mother dies. It is told from the perspective of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the year 1895. A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray.
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