The great and terrible beauty is the first book of Gemma Doyle trilogy, it is the fantasy fiction book, revolve around a girl Gemma Doyle who was born in India during British government, she always want to go back to London and fancy that city as her grand mother told her about London in the letters, her life was going amazing until bizarre events happens in which her mother died and she knows that she has some magical powers and there is another world name as realm full of magical powers, she also found that there is a group name as raskhna who do not want her to go into the realm and there is a wizard name as Circe who want the all power of realm for her self, in these all chaotic events Gemma has to save the magic of realm from Circe