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.Īs expected, this was a delicious summer treat – though it didn’t go down without some misgivings. They never returned… Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. 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. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900.
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