Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay

It was 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 of the 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. Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.

• ISBN13: 9780099750611
• Publish Date: 2 July 1998 (first published 31 May 1975)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 August 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Vintage
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 192
• 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.