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Penguin Random House

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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Trade paperback format.  Foreword by Maile Meloy.  Recommended!

Our writeup about Picnic at Hanging Rock in tandem with Riley Sager's The Last Time I Lied can be found here:

https://mysterydetectionclub.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-conversation-about-idyllic-nightmare.html

*Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer*

A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed


It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. . . .
 
Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.