Picnic At Hanging Rock: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick

by Joan Lindsay

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**

'A sinister tale' Guardian

The classic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls.

A cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred...

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 Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.

They never returned.

Is Picnic at Hanging Rock fact or fiction? Only you can truly decide.

• ISBN10: 0099577143
• ISBN13: 9780099577140
• Publish Date: 7 February 2013 (first published 31 May 1975)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: Vintage Classics
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 208
• Language: English

Reviews

[pamela]

This is my fourth time reading Joan Lindsay's wonderful Picnic at Hanging Rock. It never ceases to amaze me.

Lyndsay perfectly captures the Australian landscape as a character in its own right, cunningly walking the tightrope between modern Australia and British colonialism.

It's mysterious, abstract, whimsical, dark, and beautiful. A perfect work of Australian literature. It makes me more than a little homesick every time I read it.