Jan 29, 2019
Picnic at Hanging Rock
is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. Set in
1900, it is about a group of female students at an Australian
girls' boarding school who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a
Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on
the school and local community. The novel was first published in
1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was reprinted by
Penguin in 1975. It is widely considered by critics to be one of
the best Australian novels.
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